On 16/03/2020 14:28, John wrote:
Thanks very helpful.
So....
1. Buy an external HDD holder from Amazon for £7 or so.

Is that right?
No

1. Buy SSD
2. Buy external HDD holder
3. Buy pen drive (or external USB DVD drive - whatever)
4. Download linux image and put onto pen drive (Or DVD)
5. Change bios boot order and try booting from pen drive(or DVD)
Note at this point you haven't changed anything on the computers normal
settings or hardware.If booting successful then...
6. Take a screwdriver to the lenovo, remove hard drive and put that in
the external hdd holder.
7. Put the SSD in the lenovo
8. plug lenovo into network with cable
9. Boot and install linux on the SSD.
10. Run the package update software to get everything as new as can be
11. Use the drivers part of the control panel to get wifi and or video
working to best performance.
12. plug in the old disk and recover off it anything you need.




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