Hi again - thanks for your help on this !

It seems to boot up and run fine if I only use the 10Gb drive, so I've removed that and put it somewhere safe for now. I hope that's not going to cause any problems.

Running from just the 40Gb drive, it *appears* to boot correctly but does not have any playlists available. Looking at the output in Hyperterminal (and bearing in mind I'm not really a computer person) it all seems reasonable apart from this bit:

I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
EXT2-fs: ide0(3,4): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features.
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as ext2 but got error 22
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
No primary hard disk
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk

So it's booting up, but still can't find the drive ?? If worst comes to worst I can just rebuild the drive, but I don't have backups for quite a lot of music on there.

TIA,

Steve.