My in laws have been using a really old dell pc for their body shop. Well they decided it is about time to upgrade, and I definitely agreed!

I am in the process of putting together a good working pc for them. I am just about done, but I am hitting a snag.

They have over 5 years of documents, pictures, and other files on the hard drive, they want. I see all the files with no problems, but when I go to try and open or copy and paste them, I keep getting told I dont have proper permissions to do so.

Generally when I plug up a hard drive, I can normally open up everything and even transfer stuff.

I have tried changing the security settings, and setting myself as the owner, not working either.

I have tried researching the net, but all that keeps coming up is for external plugin usb hard drives. Not sure what to type into Google to get what I need.