inaccessable files

I am hoping someone may have come accross a similar problem to this as it is driving me nuts. a short while ago i put a new hard disk in my system as a system disk. i rebuilt the system and as far as i knew i set up my profile as i had previously had it. yesterday i tried putting my old disk in as a slave which worked no problem but when i come to access certain files instead of the normal black colour for the file names some are green and i am unable to access them. i tried signing on as administrator in safe mode and changing the auhtority of the files but still can't access them is there any way to change the authority so that i can say the are now owned by me on my new system

 

Could the "green" files be encrypted? http://www.winxptutor.com/filecolor.htm

Steve

 

the files should not be encrypted they wernt encrypted by me so if they have been must have been by something in windows?? if they were encrypted how do i unencrypt then without a key?

 

I don't know that you can, I have never encrypted any files so really not the best one to advise you on that. It might be something else, wait for some other ideas or suggestions.

Steve

 

thanks anyway