password protected user on slave drive

From: JD (JD_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:51:13 -0700

My hard drive crashed. The restore CD did not recover it (I can't boot up on
this drive). I bought a new hard drive, installed it as Master drive, and
installed the old hard drive as a Slave drive, hoping to recover my files.
Was able to recover all files from all User Accounts except mine, the
Computer Administrator account, which I had password protected in order to
open. When I go to my (Computer Administrator) User Account in Documents and
Settings on this Slave drive via My Computer or Windows Explorer or Microsoft
Word (Open File), or other programs, I get an "Access is denied" message,
with no chance to even try to enter my old password (which, by the way, is
the same password I'm using on my new (Master) hard drive).

Since other User Account data files were OK, I remain hopeful that mine are
too, if I could just access them. Any ideas? (Hate to admit it, but I
hadn't done a comprehensive hard drive backup for six months, so I'm at least
a bit desparate.....)

Thanks in advance for any help. I'm using Windows XP Home Edition (with SP2).

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