On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:01:52 -0500, pheasant16
wrote:

Won't need the programs any more. It would
be nice to restore it to full function but the saving the data is the
main goal. Do have a couple Win 7 licenses that are unused, so may
upgrade from XP. LOL

A USB3 docking station for disk drives might be nice, (it's faster
over large data hauls except there's fewer "good ones", at least last
I looked, than older USB2 models that can tend to be this side of
inexpensive but slow), whereas directly connecting HDD storage drives
to spare SATA ports on a good and working computer costs nothing.
Provided there's no malware or foul play in corrupted data. Without a
back-up for retrieving data varies according to a state the HDD or
storage device is in. Failing HDDs means while failing for some
leeway. Once failed that's it and nothing short of expensive forensic
lab services will recognize it. Mechanical storage of course;- a
failed SSD I'd imagine equivocally a meltdown.

Depending on how import to you that data is, it may be better to keep
a drive away from a questionable computer until diagnosed for whether
it's capable of running in a continued steady-state condition.

Clean OS loads may all that's indicated once the data is safely
transferred. With a boot arbitrator in the MBR of one the drives, it
can point to active partitions for different operating systems.
Windows 7 uses GRUB, however, and doesn't play well, so it may be more
convenient to establish W7 on a different physical HDD before plugging
back another boot arbitrator on another drive, whereupon the BIOS boot
sequence is defined for the second. You can have both XP and W7 and
more besides that way.