I have re-installed Mint and seemed to be up and running. I copied all of my data/downloads/FF profile and all the other stuff I can find from one of the poorly HDDs to the newly installed HDD.
Everything is hunky dory except when I play movies from youtoob or some other sources the system crashes big time. Not always instantly, sometimes it plays OK for a minute or two but then, without warning, it just powers off and reboots.
It may just be it doesn't like my choice of music
but it is a pain all the same.
Rans6......