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So update, the computer runs fine and doesn't have any issues other than the busted 2nd disk drive. It's about 4 years so it was bound to happen.
As of right now there isn't a great chance to recover the contents which is about 6 months of half finished YouTube vids, both edited and raw.
I dragged my feet on it for many reasons and none of them are really important or relevant. But I did keep ignoring it even when I had chances to finish like half of them