hard drives for new build

[drb46]

I have a machine now with two sata drives, one of which contains windows xp.

I am building a new machine and wanted to transfer the windows xp to an old IDE drive and use it on the old machine. I did this by using Maxtors utility program. So now I have a Maxtor drive with windows xp on it. When I unconnect the Sata Drives and connect the Maxtor drive, the machine won't boot, it gets to a message about DMI Data Pool.

On a another issue, can you use IDE drives with sata drives? I have been using a USB external drive with the sata drives ok, but when I try using an IDE drive along with the sata drives, the machine won't boot. What's up with that?

[Ob1]

yes you can use IDE drives with your sata drives
does the bios see the 2 drives when they are plugged in? double check that you plugged the IDE cable in correctly on the mobo for the IDE hard drive. i had a similar problem once, i had two drives plugged in and it wouldnt boot found out that i plugged in the ide cable in backwards (it was an older cable that didnt have the little notch on it to help me align it), i switched it around and all is well.