[Bdi4emc-help] hard drive crash

hi, i was running bdi 4.51 but had a hard drive crash. fsck seems to have endless errors. so looks like i have to reload the os. the mill was doing everything i need it to so it makes sense just to return it that configuration and avoid any experimentation. but i am wondering if i can run emc under a recent release of ubuntu rather than load bdi4emc onto a new disk. djs