After upgrading the HDD’s in my existing PC to a 2TB Sata HDD. I had a lot of spare IDE drives (totally approximately 1.4TB raw storage).
I needed a useful for them, so (after constantly thinking about it) decided to build myself a Media Centre PC to host all my home music and files on it. For the project I selected to build an XBMC Gotham HTPC (Home Theatre PC). I’ve always liked the XBMC software and it looks really tidy. Best of all it’s free.
Firstly I set about downloading the ISO file for the current release of XBMC Gotham. I would need this to install the software on the machine for hosting the files.
After installing the software on the computer, I had to install the disks. This is where I encountered a few problems, I will be documenting these on my main website under the PC building section as there are too many things to name here and wanted to make a full guide.
Now I have a working XBMC PC hosting all my music, movies, TV shows which I can watch locally or over the LAN
http://www.andrewhope.co.uk/Technology/projects/XBMC-Kodi-HTPC.html
