Laptop crashed. new laptop has windows 8. how do I find and move the old files to the new laptop?

My Windows 7 laptop crashed. New laptop is Windows 8.1. I have the hard drive from the old laptop. Where can I find my old emails and address books and where do I copy them in Windows 8 ?

Thunderbird stores all personal information such as messages, address books and configuration settings in a folder called the profile
Take Profile Backup and Restore to New Computer
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer
*http://www-archive.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

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