Restore to new hard drive with fresh Vista intall

[Pappyone]

I had to install a new hard drive after the old one failed. I installed a
fresh/clean version of the OEM Windows Vista OS and then tried to restore
files from the secondary hard drive that had the Windows back-ups that I had
been doing weekly. When I use the back-up and restore feature I get messages
that say:
1. "there are no backups avail on this computer
2 When I do an "advanced restore" and choose "files from a backup made on
a different computer" I can find the hard disk and the date/time info, but
the "backup location is not available"
3. When select a backup date and click next, the only way I can proceed is
if I click "restore everything in this backup", BUT
4. When I click in the "original location" I get a box that says, "the
files you are restoring have security permissions for a user acccount which
could not be found on this computer. The missiing user account is shown
below..."
5. The user account is exactly the same on the new version so there is
ultimately no way for me to restore the files.
PLEASE Help!

 

[It's Only Me]

You may need to take ownership of the files. Because you
reformatted/reinstalled, the security settings have changed from the
original installation. Check this out:
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13157

 

[Pappyone]

Thanks, I already did it the hard way by dumping it into a new subdirectory
and laboriously cutting and pasting. Hopefully I didn't mess up too many
files.