Why Boot and System Disk?

I have an Asus A7N8X-E motherboard with 4 drives. I'm told that Disk 0 and
Disk 1 are the HDs on the IDE chain and that Disk 2 and Disk 3 (last one
invisible) are on the SATA connectors and are SATA HDs, Disk 3 being a
mirror of Disk 2 using the raid level 0 feature.

I've tried to install winxp on Disk 2 but I'm informed that system files
must be places on Disk 0 while it's in there. When I do setup it says that
system files must be on Disk 0, and I can't leave it unformatted so all the
necessary files go on Disk 2. Obviously I can't effectively Ghost/image the
main hard drive, Disk 2, because necessary system files are on Disk 0. What
can I do to install? Will I have to yank the other HDs and install WinXP
first?

Thanks for your help.

Are you saying you origonally had sys running with two ide drives, and have
now added to sata drives, one of which you wish to make primary boot drive?

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I have an Asus A7N8X-E motherboard with 4 drives. I'm told that Disk 0 and
Disk 1 are the HDs on the IDE chain and that Disk 2 and Disk 3 (last one
invisible) are on the SATA connectors and are SATA HDs, Disk 3 being a
mirror of Disk 2 using the raid level 0 feature.

I've tried to install winxp on Disk 2 but I'm informed that system files
must be places on Disk 0 while it's in there. When I do setup it says that
system files must be on Disk 0, and I can't leave it unformatted so all
the
necessary files go on Disk 2. Obviously I can't effectively Ghost/image
the
main hard drive, Disk 2, because necessary system files are on Disk 0.
What
can I do to install? Will I have to yank the other HDs and install WinXP
first?

Thanks for your help.