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That's how inexperienced I am w/linux these days. Once I re-familiarized with how to get an external HDD mounted correctly, I was able to copy files to it. Everything seems to be proceeding OK, fingers crossed. Thanks for your help!

I'm saving to the USB stick w/the SystemRescue image, that's my only option. The folders available are the systemrescue folders that testdisk can see (boot, etc, dev, and the like). I pick one of them as a save lcoation for recovered files, but it doesn't matter which one I choose, files don't show ...

The subject is actually a bit inaccurate; I've been trying testdisk via several bootable USB vehicles. Just as background, I have a dead Windows 10 NTFS HDD with a corrupt MBR and with partitions that are somehow overlapping - testdisk hasn't been able to do much with that. But it can see the files ...