Okay, setting the BIOS did the trick. The computer said "whoa, this is a messed up drive. . ." and did a check, found some bad sectors, reset everything so it knows it is the F: drive and not the C: drive (as near as I can tell that's what it was doing, anyway).

The personal folders are inaccessible. That drive still thinks it is in the computer by itself and it hasn't been logged onto so it isn't letting logged on users into their old accounts.

There is, of course, a Regedit file in the old Windows system files and I can find the permissions area but I am hesitant to just muck about, not wanting to make it harder to get in. Should I eliminate those permissions and accounts, would that turn those into normal directories we can access? I can't seem to add additional permissions that take it outside of what it thinks is the computer it was once in charge of, if you get my drift. It doesn't know it is contained within another computer (more or less) that as it happens was given the same name.

Confused yet?

There's a lot of stuff in the My Documents we want to move over to the new drive, but can't reach. That's what we're aiming toward. We plan to use this older drive for some of the downloads (if they're going to mess up a drive with a hefty download of games or music or whatever, it might as well be the old drive).

Any ideas?

SRS