File access NTFS

Got a call yesterday from a friend, his PC wouldn't boot...
He runs a photographic business, portraits and stuff. He doses everything with digital cameras, PC's and high quality printers.

The PC starts to boot, the stops with a Blue screen saying something about Mount point, MBR error. Sorry to be so vague but I didn't write it down. I tryed a couple of consol commands and stuff without any luck. The files represent the last years work. So I pulled the drive and swapped it in to another PC as a second drive. There is about 45Gb of *jpg's on the drive he has to burn to CD, a long job but a good lesson for him to start to back things up...

The problem is that some of the files are within "My Documents" from his main "Admin" logon. Rights protection won't let him have access to the files. Is there a work around or is he as I suspect "stuffed"

Both PC's are runnung WinXP Pro

Copy the files to another machine and take ownership of the files

Unless he encrypted them, this will work.

Thanks Noo Noo, got it sorted...