Recover usb drive that has folder protected

hi. I protected various folders on a 1tb usb drive using an administrator account on windows 7.
when replacing my pc I deleted the original administrator account.
now I cannot access my usb drive files using the new administrator account.
I get "Access is denied" and options to re-format the drive.
How do I recover from this mess ?
Thanks

You can boot your comptuter into Windows Recovery Environment.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825173.aspx
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/make-system-repairs-from-the-windows-recovery-environment-from-windows-vista-inside-out
Open the command line.
Then you have system rights to this drive.
Copy all your files from the USB drive to an other drive.

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