TIME MACHINE BACK UP RESTORED PASSWORD NOT ACCEPTED

Hi guys, i gave my MACBOOK PRO Mavericks, to my daughter. I stored all my data on timemachine backup. I took my old MACBOOK, running on 10.5.8, and tried to load the data there, With some error, data was loaded, but the password, is not accepted. I reset the password, after going into the user accounts, but still it is not accepted. Can anybody hep for the same. Thanks.

Hi Hannahpdx,
try to repair your external harddisk using the Disk Utility from the application-folder.
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