Master and Slave

Red,

As far as I understand the IDE identification of master and slave relates to the position of the jumpers on the drive.

When a drive is transferred to a laptop from a desktop it then becomes the Master (as it is the only drive and there are no jumpers to set - unlike an IDE drive in a desktop).

There only remains to determine the partition on which the boot manager resides. In my case the boot is on partition(1) [not partition(0) - this is where the recovery partition resides].

Setting the boot.ini to look at the appropriate partition (the one that contains the boot manager) is a matter of determining whether it is (0) or (1) - I think that it would be (0) in your case.

The boot disc would be disk(0), rdisk(0) and the partition(TBA) - and this would be in the default line of boot.ini

I am still not sure about the upgrade/full install issue.

Martin