Repair Install & SATA Drives

History
1year ago replaced a 4 yr old HP with a new ABIT MB & AMD 64 processor. Installed the original 46GB HD from the HP with XP-Pro installed into the ABIT. Everything worked fine, no problems anywhere. Since I do a lot of video work, installed two new SATA drives, 250GB & 300GB. SATA drives installed from floppy with option to use the SATA a the boot drive. All files including system were copied from the 46 GB to the 250 GB SATA. There were absolutely no problems with the OS or any software for 9 months until I picked up spyware that kept redirecting to unwanted sites. Successfully deleted the spyware and continued to operate including installing Windows updates. About 2 months ago found that system restore, system info, media player and autoupdates to IE6 and my scanner will not run. For the last two months I've been working with NS support (China) and have a 1" stack of emails with proposed solutions none of which worked. MS capitulated a recommended either a repair install or clean install with the resultant reinstallation requirements.
I participated in the original XP beta testing and had XP installed prior to official release. As a result my XP installation cd is a update to the original beta. Attempted a repair install in the existing system and discovered that the repair process does not recognize the SATA drives so if I do a repair it will be to the original 46 GB drive only. Obviously, this is not workable. Also, changing the CMOS boot drive to the original 46 GB drive provides full OS operation but agonizing slow.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Hi, paulswa. I also welcome you to Windows BBS.

In case you want to create an SP2 slipstreamed bootable CD as Pete suggested, here's a quick link to instructions.

Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD