Well spotted Jon.
The setup escape before operating system load-up recognises the new hard drive. The settings were saved before exiting the utility.

Old hard drive plus old CD-rom drive are NOW on PRIMARY IDE conector. Original hard drive is "Master" and CD-Rom Drive is set to "Slave". Both appear to be working properly.

NEW DRIVES are connected to the Secondary IDE connector. Hard Drive is first in the chain and set to Master. DVD writer is second in the chain and set to Slave..

I have created the three partitions on the 30GB drive using Acronis Partition Selector. - I have not yet got around to booting using the Acronis Partition Selector utility to see what that finds.

As for formatting the drive - I assumed that it would appear as an existing "unformatted" drive (which I could then format) and do not understand why it does not appear.

Quack!
Gtd.