allright have u documents on a old harddrive from a previous pc.
you got a new pc and are trying to copy the files over onto the new hardrive for the new pc?? Are those documents in my documents on the old harddrive?? do u still have ur old pc ???

is ur new pc windows vista or xp?

The easiest thing if possible is to get ur old pc running just so u can boot into windows,, and then open 'my computer, then right click your my documents folder, then properties, sharing, and untick make this folder private...

failing that then u need to get the advanced security option up in windows
on ur new pc and under the owner setting, there is a checkbox for replace owner on subcontainers and objects,,, this option will tell windows to re-enable access to the new windows user,, which will unlock all files and subfolders within the folder u are trying to access...


so for example if all the files and folders are restricted access, in say my documents... if u enable the replace owner option,,, then all files within my documents will be accessable and u wont have to manually unlock each one. saving u 10 years
If i've confused u im sorry,,,