It's a matter of permissions. If you right click on teh files you want to transfer from your current windows installation you can go to the security tab and change ownership to yourself. This will give you full rights to do as you please to the files (I believe you have to do this from safemode in XP home)
You could also boot from your old drive, make the files available, or move them to a folder in an unsecured directory for transfer. I know that you were having trouble logging in but you might be able to get in using safemode or the administrator account.
There's also the third option, of using a Live CD linux distrobution (some bootable partition managers will do what you need too) and copying the files over from there. Most of these distrobutions don't care much about windows file ownership.
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