Thanks everyone for the thought provoking answers (and comments) - I decided to approach from another angle this morning. I put the old hard drive back into the old computer and worked on repairing the XP errors; miraculously, it worked! I'm now contemplating the new computer waiting to be...
Vacunita,
Sorry, I should have specified the operating system. The old hard drive is XP Pro, the computer it's going into is XP Home. The attributes box is the solid green square, and AutoCAD indicates when I open the file that it is read only or currently in use.
Yesterday, my UPS battery failed; evidently causing a problem booting my computer (it hangs on log-in, but booted ok in safe mode). I took out the hard drive and put it into another computer case as a second drive, everything boots ok and I can read and access the files I need. The problem is...
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