Well, this is a surprise, since your question seemed to ask about online accounts. Now it's something entirely different. The answer was strictly for people using online TurboTax, so obviously it won't work in your case.
If you prepared your return locally on a computer using a CD, then it has nothing to do with online accounts. Not sure where you got info about "hidden files or unreadable" when transferred to a jump drive. Never heard of such; people transfer tax data files between computers all the time. Or did you try to copy an entire installation from one computer to another? If so, then that doesn't work.
Did you install the 2016 software on the new computer? If you don't have a CD-ROM drive, and need the program installation file, TurboTax Support can furnish you a download so you can install the program.
What exactly did you copy to a jump drive? Did you try to copy the installed folders and files from one computer to another? That won't work.
The only file you need from the old computer is the *.tax2016 data file, and then you can open it in the 2016 software. So do you have the *.tax2016 data file? Did you copy that or salvage the data file from the damaged computer onto a jump drive?
Or did you happen to save any PDFs from the old computer? Do you have a PDF of your return on the jump drive?
