here is my scenario: I just rebuilt a new computer, and put 2 hard drives in it. one is a new one and one is the old one which had an install of windows XP on it. I am now running windows server 2003 on the new HD and I'm trying to recover my files from the other hard drive. For some reason whenever I click on my My Documents folder, it says access is denied.

so anyway I tried to use knoppix to copy the files from one hard drive to another. when I try to though it says that there is either a reading or writing access problem...any idea how i can get around this an manipulate files on both hard drives?

also, the reason I dont just boot up the old hard drive is that it wont boot...an odd problem considering its files seem intact

thanks,
rich