Help with Data Transfer?

My old Dell inspiron 2650's motherboard fried recently. My 60 gb hard drive was left intact. I bought a new alienware, and bought an external enclosure for my old 60. Unfortunately, my Documents folder on my old drive is under lockdown or something, and I cannot access it. When I try to access Documents and Settings/<my name>, it tells me that it is "not accessible. Access is denied."

I still have alot of data on there that I would like (including a backlog of e-mails from a year or two.) and I don't want to take out the hard drive of my brand new computer. Is there anyway for me to get in it?

 

The first thing that comes to mind is that you might need to 'take ownership of the files' in Vista (I'm assuming that is what you have as you said your AW is new). The other thought is that there is/was a hard drive password...not too sure how we could help you with that though :/.

 

Actually I got XP media center. I despise vista.

And I had one, but it was not enabled at the time of the crash. Had a profile password which I think is keeping me out...

 

However, thanks to your taking ownership idea, I searched google and got the Microsoft database to tell me how to with windows XP. Thanks alot!