HDD IDE seems to work, but SATA does not

I had an OLD IDE drive laying around that has a working version of XP on it. I installed the IDE drive, directed BIOS to boot from that drive, and it worked. Of course, it's not the drive I want to be booting from.....I want to boot from the SATA drive. However, it doesn't seem to want to BOOT from that SATA drive. I'll call the nice lady with the robotic voice if it means avoiding a clean install, because of all the data I'd lose. I just don't know how to get it to boot from SATA.

Could it be a driver issue? The refurbed MB didn't come with a support CD, so maybe there is a driver missing....like a SATA driver or something else.

Boot in to the recovery console and fixboot. It may work but a clean install is for the best.

You use the bios to configure what hard drive is used for booting. If you can see the SATA drive in the list, you can select it as the boot drive, without using any additional SATA drivers. If you cannot see the SATA drive, you will have to go online and get SATA drivers for your motherboards make and model. You do not need a driver CD. You may need to update the motherboard's bios if all else fails

I agree with Tmagic650.
A change in the boot order in the BIOS may be all that is necessary... if the SATA drivers are present.
Microsoft does make it difficult to change the drives around, but clearly this one EIDE drive works... and the SATA will work when properly configured. You can then use the EIDE drive jumpered as a slave to withdraw a copy of the data on it.