No access to backed up hard drive

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I had trouble with software on my old hard drive. I made a complete copy on
a new hard drive. Then I formated my original drive and put a fresh copy of
Windows XP from my recovery section. I thought I could just copy my old
pictures, data and music. When I try to copy them I cannot. I get a message
like "Access is denied you are not autorized to view this data). Somehow I
have lost my administration rights to my old hard drive. The data is there,
right file names and size. I just can't open anything. I did change my
computers name when I put the new stuff on it. I am not totally sure what
the old name was but I might be able to figure it out. Would this be stored
on the old drive. Help!
 
I had trouble with software on my old hard drive. I made a complete copy on
a new hard drive. Then I formated my original drive and put a fresh copy of
Windows XP from my recovery section. I thought I could just copy my old
pictures, data and music. When I try to copy them I cannot. I get a message
like "Access is denied you are not autorized to view this data). Somehow I
have lost my administration rights to my old hard drive. The data is there,
right file names and size. I just can't open anything. I did change my
computers name when I put the new stuff on it. I am not totally sure what
the old name was but I might be able to figure it out. Would this be stored
on the old drive. Help!
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Check out the "Ownership" issue. See Q308421 from MS. See my reply
to OP below for more details. Good luck! I am still working on this
myself.
 
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