Problems, opportunities and a mission with a dying laptop hard drive

1 · Mariel · Jan. 15, 2023, midnight
Last week my beloved Ubuntu MATE development environment exhibited many signals of decay. I found out the laptop’s hard drive is faulting - no wonder, it’s an old laptop with a mechanical hard drive. This post briefly summarizes my thoughts on how I am venturing to install an SSD on my own for the first time....