Quoted from arakissun:Great progress,it will be fine if you write some tutorial when test everything.Step by step.
Is it need to be small HDD or it can be put some bigger like 80GB,160GB or more.The idea is that these small drives are rare and usually don't have too much life.
No need for step-step... Just have your friend clone his harddrive. Then you are back up and running. You can get nucore to run on a $80 PC