NTFS - a little off topic

[rod holcomb]

Situation:
My neighbor gave me a 20 gig hd that came out of his WinXP machine.   I would like to recover a few 
files (address book and email) for him before I reformat the drive.  I was able to mount the drive 
(on a RH8.0 machine) and I can see the directory structure.  I can access the 

/WINDOWS                 directory, but the directories 

/Program Files           and
/Documents and Setting
  
are listed after a “ls –l” command but I cannot access them.  Actually the file type is (?) instead 
of (d) and the size is zero as I recall.

Any suggestions on getting to this data (if in still exists)?  I can ask him for the usernames and 
passwords that he had been using.

I can also bring my server (RH8.0) with the WinXP drive attached to the next meeting if that might 
help.  

It has been suggested to me to get a dos boot floppy from NTFS.com and use that.   

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks 
Rod Holcomb