Thank you for the advice guys. Luckily, it isn't critical data so I can maybe learn something from doing this.

I'm new to this and am not sure where to begin. I have an old HP laptop, Windows 10 (at least 10 years) that recently gave me warning that hard drive failure was imminent, do a back up asap. The machine would not fully boot, etc. I re-started and got into emergency back up mode and managed to get th...