Won't boot off SATA

Hi,

I am trying to install a Maxtor 200GB SATA drive in my P4 1,6 system. I originally had two 80GB disks connected to the IDE connection on the MB (Chaintech something - about a year old). I disconnected those and installed the SATA drive (on an Adaptec 1210 board). When booting it insisted there was no hard disk, but when I hit enter to continue it loaded anyway. All well, installed Windows XP etc, and then reconnected the IDE drives. However, now it insists to boot from the IDE drives (the old C drive) and I cannot get it to stop doing that. I have told the BIOS not to boot from any of the known hard disks but with no success. I would have liked an option to set it to boot off a SATA drive, but didn't have that option. When booting off the old drives I can get it to recognize the SATA drive, so a workaround would be not to boot off the new disk, but I kind of liked the idea of a large C drive and only using the old ones for temp storage.
Any ideas?
Per Bressendorff

 

Had the same problem on a computer i was working on once, would not do anything i wanted till i updated bios, then all sorts of new bios options were available, worth a go.

Cheers, jim

 

It's much easier when the motherboard has the SATA
controller chip since you have direct easy connectors and
the bios is specifically arranged for SATA. However most
BIOS setups still reflect the hardware jumper and cable settings and the boot order. Example the conventional
boot sequence will show floppy/CD/HDD/HDD. Your
bios will normally show which drives are detected and the
boot order you have selected. What drives is the bios showing and what boot sequence are they set to?

 

Hello. Did you find a solution? A note to my original post: the setup fior my Chaintech was in the integrated peripherals section buried under a subheading for the super IO and then
gave me a choice of independent third party cards or it listed
my Seagate SATA.