Cannot move files after taking ownership

Hi all,
I had a bad experience upgrading to Windows Vista. Everything went fine untill time to start it for the first time. It booted normally, showed the windows start screen, then I got a nanosecond BSOD and it started booting again. The repair option didn't fix it. Like a dipstick, I didn't do a back up. So I installed another hard drive and Windows XP, then gathered up all my data from the other drive and placed it in a folder in the new drive. After that, I formated the old drive and reinstalled XP. Now, when I try to move the data after logging in as an administrator, turning off simple file sharing and taking ownership of the folder, I get this message:

"Cannot copy (file or folder name): Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use. "

No matter what I try, I get the same message.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Mark (blufx)

 

rarther than copy just try to open file then save to disc then re open in the new drive

VISTA *****!!!!

 

Arie,
Those are the instructions I used to gain ownership and the files are not encrypted. At least I didn't encrypt them.

keithsince59,
I'll try that and get back to you in a little while if I can get rid of all these kids that don't live here!! LOL

As always, thanks for the help

 

Here's the fix

I ask the same question at bleepingcomputer.com. I was told to format a drive in fat32, then use "PClinuxOS" to copy the files to this drive. PClinuxOS is a operating system that can be run off the boot CD by loading the OS into the system RAM. PClinuxOS can read NTFS files but can't write them. When I copied them to the fat32 drive, it stripped all permissions from the files. Then it was easy to use Windows to put the files back where I wanted them.
I don't want to PClinuxOS to replace Windows, but it is a very handy tool for problems such as this.

Mark