My computer died: Access my desktop files from other CPU?

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My computer died: Access my desktop files from other CPU?

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So my computer is pretty much useless now, except the hard drive is fine. A friend has my hard drive attached as a slave to his computer, and we can access all the files except stuff that's in "My Documents" or on my desktop, which is the same thing I guess. It doesn't give us the administrative privelages to access these. How can I get to these files? As you might guess, some of my most important files are in this folder. Any help would be appreciated. I was running Windows XP, and my friend has XP Pro.
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plug it into his computer and you will be able to access these files
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Plug what into his computer? I already have my harddrive connected to his computer. I can access everything except "My Documents". As I said, the rest of my computer is basically unusable.
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anyone?

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I can't imagine this is a rare occurance. Someone must know what to do? I really need some of the files on my old desktop.
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You should be able to access the files unless they were encrypted, what error message does it give you?
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When we try to open the My Documents folder it says something about "you do not have administrative privelege to access these files", something like that. I sure didn't encrypt anything on purpose.
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the user that you are logged in as, is that an administrator?
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Well that sort of seems to be the problem. We can't log in as an administrator for my hard drive. If we knew how to do that I think that would solve the problem.
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nono, the user that you are using, is that an administrator?
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