you may not want to hear this but I had similar problem...
I built new board from the A7N8X-E Delux... basically same BIOS and Sili 3112a SATA controller chipset
Used two WD Raptors in SATA and a new WD800JB as IDE Master on channel one. I wanted the boot to be SATA and but never could get XP Pro to see them as legitimate install drives so always defaulted to installing on the IDE drive. I tried taking out the IDE drive and finally found that to boot from SATA, the BIOS demanded that the first BOOT drive on SATA be defined as SCSI.
I suspect that because you did it backwards and installed XP to the IDE drive, then did the clone, that the BOOT record and Meta file ID (part of NTFS) on the IDE drive are set and will be persistant for first drive boot whenever that drive is persent.
I recommend a reinstal of XP onto the SATA HDD0 clean and later install the IDE drive with an compleatly new partition and format.
Note: The other problem I had was on XP install I was required to hit F6 to add "other Mass storage devices" after a wait of a while the XP loaded a temporay system and demanded I define the new mass storage device and insert driver disk in drive A: ...
This gave me some grief as the Asus SATA driver were on CD. Took a while before I found just the right mix of files that would fit on 1.44mb as the Asus driver instal on CD is an EXE program that is too big. But once I got the ini and driver file into the XP loader all went fine and XP installed just fine onto my SATA HDD0 C: partition.
When I decided to experiment with the Raid 0 capabilitys I had to do a clean reinstall as I reversed what you did and cloned the boot partition to the IDE drive and after setting up the Raid tried to clone back to the SATA. XP would only boot from the IDE drive. I took out the drive, reformated the SATA mirrored set, installed XP (27 total minutes) and then put back the IDE master on channel one, reformated it and all is now right with the world. But it was one royal PITA!
HTH
Fred
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