> Hi Uwe, On Wednesday 17 January 2018 21:09:07 Uwe Brauer wrote: 
 
> It did occur to me that the HDD could have died.  I've seen many 
> instances where this has happened during an OS install. 

Fortunately it did not (it is a SSD), I made progress which I will 
describe in the mail to Slavek

Uwe