Need help with a real XP challenge

[cnsf]

My mother-in-law's PC crapped out last week and wouldn't boot. I managed to convince her to buy a new PC, however, we needed to recover her data. The hard drive from the crapped out PC works fine. She just got the new PC today.

I put her old hard drive (was a Win XP boot drive) into my PC at home and can access most of the folders EXCEPT her My Documents folder in her user directory.

I have no idea where to turn to try and get this data now. I get and "Access Denied" error. Adding her username didn't seem to work and I am an administrator on the machine. I have a feeling this may be an NTFS issue and I'm not sure how to get around it or where to look for help.

Any help would be VERY much appreciated.

[Pepper]

you need to go to properties of the folder and "take ownership" then once you own it you can do normal stuff.

[Redster]

yup yup

[cnsf]

I did find something and resolved it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

Thanks for the suggestions, they were right on target.

[music_beans]

BTW, couldn't you have just fixed your Mother-in-law's old computer? If it was a boot error, it was probably something with the MBR.