laura_seabrook | Progress (Reply)

Well, I have now exchange the 160 Gb in the set top box with the 80 Gb I bought today. This means that I can extract some of the recording on the old disk (and will swap it back when done). I've also swapped the old 30 Gb disk (kaput?) in the media PC with a new 40 Gb disk. No, I could easily have put the 80 Gb in the media PC but it doesn't need it, as it has a second (SATA) drive in it for storage anyway, and playing video and the occasional use of SL on it don't warrent a huge system disk (yet).

Step 2 is done. The next steps will be

Partition the Drive using a Linux boot disk;
checking my Windows disks are usable; and if so installing WIN on the 1st partition;
Installing Ubuntu on another partition;
Installing drivers and programs to make it work.

In the meantime I'll examine the dud disk, and extract the videos off the other (according to a long and convoluted procedure).