Windows Vista Viewing protected recovery partition

I had to reformat my Gateway Windows Vista. I exported my Outlook files to the "D" drive which is the recovery partition thinking I could import them after I had completed my office install. However, the D drive is protected, it shows up in disk management and I can open it up but it has some kind of protection software on it so that I can't see my files, which I understand the reason. But now I am faced with not being able to recover my Outlook .pst file. Is there anyway I can explore this partition? I have set permissions to full control but this software still will not let me view files on this partition.

 

Taking ownership did not disable the security software protecting the recovery partition. However, here is the solution...

Here's an easy way to disable PC Angel:

First you need to go into Folder Options and set to show hidden files and systems files, then...

Use Windows Explorer to navigate to

C:\Windows\System32\ShellvRTF.dll
C:\Windows\System32\ShellvRTF64.dll
and rename the file I just renamed mine .old.
Then reboot!

Worked like a charm and retrieved my files then changed the above entries back to .dll