trying to boot to my new sata HD's

[tibs]

Ok, right now, my primary master IDE HD has win xp on it....

I just installed 2 sata HD's......connected to a sata PCI card (rocket 1520)

in bios i have it set to boot to the sata HD, but when installing windows xp, the installation says somthing about no hardrive is found.....

now when the IDE master is set to boot, in "my computer" both sata drives show up, so they are connected and working fine, i just cant figure out how to boot and install to a sata drive.....

what i want to achive is since i have 2 sata drives at 7200rpms and one IDE...i want to use 1 sata as the O/S drive to boot to, and use the IDE as a backup drive.....

any suggestions?

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

You need to put the drivers from the pci card (the SATA drivers) onto a floppy disk and press F6 when the install starts, with the floppy in, then it will install to one of the drives.

[EzyStvy]

"my primary master IDE HD has win xp on it" -> I would unplug this till you get the other drive booting up.

Very possible the new install will go "look" there's already a bootable C drive here. Lets make this new installation D drive.