Access Pictures On Hard Drive That Use To Be On Another Computer

My Old 12" stopped working a while ago. I removed the hard drive and transffered the information to another larger hard drive connected to my new 13.5" intel mac. I need to access some picture in the picture folder and when I try and navigate to the folder either in the finder or iphoto, I see there is a minus sign in a red circle at the corner of the folder. Nothing is visible in the folder. I tried to repair permissions and it did nothing.
I would try and start up from the duplicate of the old hard drive but, it was the PowerPC system and now I have intel and I suspect starting up will not work.
Any suggestions how I can ge t in this folder?

Neil: Thanks for the siggestion. I tried that, the folder still displayed the minus sign and would not show the contents. I also tried to repair permissions on the disk.
Would appreciate any other suggestions.
Mike

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