HI, I have a slight problem. My primary computer failed. When turned on it said operating system not found (win xp pro). I pulled it out, put a new one in and reinstalled. Now I'm trying to recover the information on the old hard drive. I can access everything on the drive except "my documents". It says "not accessible. Access is denied." When checking the properties it is listed as read-only. It will not allow me to change this. My question is: Is there some way around this or a program that will allow me to access this folder? I put the old drive into an external hard-drive carrier and that is how I'm accessing it. The main thing I want to get off of it are all the family photo's I had stored on it. The wife is pissed as hell thinking they are lost. Something about the fact that I originally assured her how safe this would be. Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you people can give me.