XP Proffessional

hi, theres a bit of a story to this but ill make it as clear as i can.

First problem was when i booted pc up it keeped freezing on the xp loading screen.
Was told to do a xp repair from disk, but when asked for admin password on setup, it said my password was wrong even know i know it 100%.
I have to hard drives c: and d:
drive c has the current xp system that i was having problems with, so i did a clean install on drive d:

Pc is up and running now, but i now cant access anything in drive c: even know it see's it.

i can view the folders in c drive but not open them


i have quite a few important files on that drive, if anyone can help me access it, that would be great


i have tried going into safe mode as admin and checking that i was allowed to access the drive

could it be that the drive with the problem which still has its own operating settings still on there, and thats why i cant change them

any help would be great

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421