Need help recovering data from WinXP

I presently have a hard disk was in a winXP computer. (eMachineT1120)
It decided to stop working one day. Would not boot.

I was able to boot from floppy disks and start the recovery console.
chkdsk /r and fixboot did not work. I was able though to see the c:
drive and all of the files. I could not go into documents and settings
though. "access denied".

.... So close yet so far......

I now want to get access to the data on the disk in the documents and
settings folder.

I installed the disk as secondary drive. Still could not see the
files.

Help!!

thanks!