I have problems upgrading my mkI. The serial port seems to drop characters and as such the upgrade always fails. I've tried on lots of hardware/os combinations and my mkII works fine and the mkI always fails. Leads me to think the serial port is broken in the mkI.

I was wondering what my options were. Can I pull the drive and attach it to my PC and upgrade that way? Any other inspired suggestions?

Cheers,
Sue.