2 SATA as master/slave not RAID

[Perfesser]

I'm posting this before I go ahead and try it so I'm not begging for emergency help later.
There seems to be a wealth of experts trolling here.

I have an Athalon 64 on an Asus K8V se mobo. Currently using a single WD Raptor SATA 10K rpm 74G that has some "issues" (corrupted directx in OS).

I bought a second Raptor at 36G and want to install that as the primary HD with the OS and a few select apps (games Teamspeak, little else).

As I understand it, SATA does not use the usual primary/slave setup.

What exactly are the steps I should go through to install the HD as the primary(?) and then install the OS (WinXP).
Thanks in advance

 

[swker98]

i dont quite get the question

when your in xp setup, look for the drive and select the drive you want to put xp on

 

[Perfesser]

What I'm looking for is
1. put in the hd and hook it up
2. boot up and go to bios
3. select boot sequence
4 insert winxp cd

On my K8V SE deluxe there are 4 SATA connectors,
SATA 1 and 2,
SATA primary and sec.

The single HD is now connected to SATA 1 (not my doing, I didn't build this)
So the config I'm looking for should go to SATA primary and sec?
Boot sequence (floppy, CD, new hd, old hd) selected in the bios?

 

[iss]

connect your new sata drive to the Sata 1 port and reconnect the original drive to Sata 2. ( it might be easier to just leave the second hard drive disconnected while you format and install windows on the new drive.)