New imac, cant open harddrive

Hope someone can help and im sure its really basic as always, but tonight i got my new imac home (have been using mac 4 yrs) and for some reason i loaded the software but the hard drive wont open no applications or anything, only the stuff in the dock will open, i tried to create a new folder and it wouldnt open either, i tried to reload the disks but they wont reload, any ideas?.

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