I currently do most of my work on my E-Machines computer, running windows XP home edition. Today I was using it, and it just froze. SO I did the only thing I could think of. I rebooted. However, when I rebooted, I startup came to a halt with an "unmountable boot disk" error and would not let me go on. So I disconnected it, and put in a spare hard drive, and installed XP on that as well. I then connected the old drive up as a slave to try and recover my files. However, when I started to browse the drive, I could not get into my accounts folder under documents and settings. I am able to get around the entire hard drive, except my folder. When I try to open it, I get an error, telling me "access denied". I can not copy, or paste. I thought I may be able to view it under dos prompt, which I still received the same error. Later on I disconnected that, and tried to install an old copy of linux mandrake. I then discovered that it would not work on my system. So, this is my question. Does anyone know a way to bypass this access denied error and get into my folder? Or know of any free/very inexpensive software to fix this (corrupt?) section of my hard drive?