Broken Windows XP Recovery Help

[YellowMenace]

Something happened to my dad's windows xp and now it won't boot. He did have a spare, unused hard drive in his computer that I installed win7 onto. That's fine and great, but here's the major problem;

He downloads his emails onto his computer with no backup and now we cannot access them. He has used Outlook Express as his email client for almost 11 years. 

 

How do we access these email files and import them into, say, Thunderbird?

OR

How do we repair WinXP boot with no WinXP disks?

[CoolaxGaming]

Didnt MS stop supporting XP 4 months ago? If they did, you will have to wait for a more smart response...

[MeDownYou]

Something happened to my dad's windows xp and now it won't boot. He did have a spare, unused hard drive in his computer that I installed win7 onto. That's fine and great, but here's the major problem;

He downloads his emails onto his computer with no backup and now we cannot access them. He has used Outlook Express as his email client for almost 11 years. 

 

How do we access these email files and import them into, say, Thunderbird?

OR

How do we repair WinXP boot with no WinXP disks?

Wait so your spare harddrive works installed? if that is the case you can attempt to repair the drive if successful you should get like 98% of the data back that you can transfer. Try looking at this if that is the case

 

 

[YellowMenace]

Wait so your spare harddrive works installed? if that is the case you can attempt to repair the drive if successful you should get like 98% of the data back that you can transfer. Try looking at this if that is the case

 

 

The HDD is fine, the OS is borked.

[MeDownYou]

The HDD is fine, the OS is borked.

install on another drive and access the drive that way

[Opcode]

Make a bootable Ubuntu USB drive and boot into the Ubuntu desktop live session. From there you should be able to access the information on the drive and back it up to another USB or whatever.

[YellowMenace]

install on another drive and access the drive that way

 

Make a bootable Ubuntu USB drive and boot into the Ubuntu desktop live session. From there you should be able to access the information on the drive and back it up to another USB or whatever.

 

... He did have a spare, unused hard drive in his computer that I installed win7 onto. That's fine and great, but ...

There's already another OS on there on a separate drive.

We don't know where the emails are saved to or how to even open/ access them once we do find them. The Outlook Express program is giving errors when we try to open it, so we couldn't do that either.