Unsolicited advice to any reader: It would be handy to do this for your machine BEFORE it dies.

I'm just glad that Windows XP files from one machine could successfully revive the other. Even though for legal and copyright reasons I had to shut down my machine while Teph was restoring hers, so that we wouldn't be using the same legally licenced version of Win XP on two machines at the same time. (heh heh)