Sata help

[kakagar]

Sorry I couldn't edit the old thread
Guys sorry if this is an stupid question but I can't get my sata to work as a bootable system drive and i'm presuming i can't make this happen with only one drive unless i connect it to an pci adapter?
Here's the deal i want my st316002 3as as my bootable system drive i'm currently using an ide st340810A as master an a maxtor 96147U8 as slave can I replace my ide drives with only one Serial ata disk?
If it's possible and someone can guide me through the steps to do it I'd be grateful, also my win xp sp1 install cd doesn't recognise it when prompting in which dirve to install. Although the drive can be used and works properly in windows , now I got it to boot but it looks it's still dependent on my other drive to boot (I used partition magic to copy the contents of the drives)
The rest of my specs are
AMD 64 3200+
MSI K8T-NEO_FISR
1 Stick of 512 Kingston Valueram DDR 400 KVR400X64C3A/512
Sapphire Ati Radeon 9600 XT 128mb
Compaq Dvd-Rom DRD8120B
Lite-On DVDRW LDW-851S

 

[MZhukov]

You got a floppy drive attached to that? if so put the SATA drivers on a disk and when the windows install asks if you want to install scsi drivers at the start of the installion say yes, put the disk in and then windows should detect the harddrive.
It needs drivers to be able to see it, before you install, although winxp with sp1 "should" be able to do this.