i have a hard drive that was failing- i turned it to a slave and was transfering all the files onto a new harddrive....when i got to my folder (administrator)i could not access anything in it.....there is no where for me to type the password that protects them how do i transfer them over...im using xp - home - and a workgroup1 person got this answerI do too

See the Microsoft Knowledge Base article How to take ownership of a file or a folder in Windows XP .