welcome to senility . It only gets worse from here . <| sep |> Yeah I know you can use any 2 . 5 inch hard drive , just thought it was worth noting since I don ' t know what it was used for or if it was stressed . From off , hold your finger on it until it turns back off and let go . Then hold it until it beeps once , twice , then a quick double beep and it will boot into recovery . You let go after the double beep though right ? That ' s what I ' m doing and I don ' t get the menu to boot . In any case I think I just need a controller and hard drive and I ' m all set although I still need to test the blu ray drive . Thanks by the way . <| sep |> Just so you know , incessant complaints about downvotes have an unintended side effect .