I want to post the toons that I'd saved b4 the PC went bad. If I can do that, I'll post a few double-sized (~100 images) versions on consecutive days. If I can't get those back, I'll start putting together what I've been saving into a thread hopefully in the beginning of the week beg. 3/18. You know that I post to several sites & it's a lot to do with this configuration & w/o all the bells & whistles.
If your computer won't boot because of a boot-sector problem on the disc, you can always burn a CD with a Linux bootable (or a thumbdrive) on you new machine. Boot that puppy on the old machine and you can recover the files using Linux, even if the Windows is broken. A Mac can do that too.
You can also remove the drive, connect it to a USB adapter and your new box will see it like a thumb drive.