Can't find admin files on former startup disk - now 2nd drive on MacPro

Help, My G5 tower died and I bought a MacPro tower. I put the drive from the G5 in the MacPro as a second drive and it runs fine but I can't find any files I created under the root user. I used Root for about six months while my system was dying a slow death due to some motherboard failure. I kept losing access to the user accounts but not root so I just worked in that. I know the root password and all but I have no idea how to even find the files. I can ironically now access all of the user files but everything done under "root/admin" is invisible.
Is there a way to simply access files like iWeb sites, etc on the old G5 drive? Is there a way to install OSX on the backup and re-access the G5 files?
Thanks!

Do you mean you are looking for the root user's home folder?
You can find that under /var/root on your old G5 disk. From Finder, select Go menu > Go to Folder..., and enter /Volumes/G5diskname/var/root.
You need root permission to get into that directory though, so if you want to use Finder you will have to be logged in as root. Or, a safer way, is to just remain logged in to your regular user account, right-click the G5 disk, Get Info, and select "Ignore ownership on this volume" under the ownershop & permissions section. Then you should have full access to everything on the drive without having to log in as root.

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