How to access administrative folder on SATA drive

Long story short, my last computer crashed ( motherboard failure ), and I removed the HDD before I sold the computer. The computer had a partitioned drive ( D and C ) and I can access all my files on the D drive just fine ( used it mostly for storing videos I edited and extra files ). The C drive opens up, but when I try to acess the administrative folder ( Where you try to open up the "Insert Name" drive ) it says "You need administrative blah blah blah" and I click okay, then it just loads and loads and loads and doesnt stop loading. I don't know what to do. I would like to access all my files ( hundreds of dollars of music from Itunes, tons of videos and lots and lots of school files ).

Any help or ideas would be great! I also can't justify having a shop charge me $100 to do it.

 

Is this old HDD inside an enclosure? I yanked my stock M11x drive and I can access any file without problems.

 

It's possible that the motherboard crash caused an issue with the drive. Have you run a scandisk on it?

 

Have you tried changing the owner and stripping the permissions on the drive?

 

You just need to take ownership of the folder since it was from a different OS.

How to take ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP

 

Not because it was from a different OS, but because NTFS has security settings on Documents and Settings/Users folder. If the old HDD was FAT32 there are no security settings on Documents and Settings/Users folder.

Edit: Nice find Flipfire, I grow tired of explaining stripping permissions/changing owners to people. +1 rep

 

That worked! Thanks to everyone who contributed.