Hard drive recovery and replacement

I have a T43 1875. The hard drive has gone out - can't access operating system, clicking sound, blue button doesn't work. I have obtained the set of boot, rescue and recovery disks and a new hard drive. I can follow the video to physically replace the hard drive. As I understand it, I just follow the instructions (including moving the CD drive to the first position) that came with the disks and follow the prompts and the new drive will be loaded as when it was a new computer. However, I thought I would first use the Rescue and recovery disk on the old drive to see if I could get some files used since my last backup. I can't find detailed instructions of what to expect from the rescue program and how to get the files if possible. Does someone have a link that would help? Thanks.

Restoring the OS will probably be the least of your problems This is not going to make you happy, unless you have one of the magic hard drives:
T43 - new hard drive
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