I currently have a 40GB IDE hard drive running Windows XP. I WANT to add a second hard drive to it and i have a SATA 80GB hard drive. When I hook it up to the PC it reads from the SATA FIRST which doesnt have an Operating system on it. How do I get it to boot tp the IDE hard drive first? Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. I tryed searching through this site and I didn't see any topics related to it. THANKS!Go to your BIOS go to the tab ADVANCE then look for Boot Priority then on your list from 1-X (X SHOWING you the total amount of Hard Drives/Devices you can hook up) then make the Boot Priority 1. IDE Hard Drive OR CD-ROM Drive (If you want it is used if your computer crashes or other failures) 2. IDE Hard Drive (If you want CD-ROW first) 3. SATA Drive. Then Save CHANGES and Quit, reboot and tell us/me what happends does it work?Also when you have done the above you could TRAVEL to the SATA drive manuf. site and DLoad their utilities...
These will allow you to "clone " the 40G to the SATA and have everything in place as is...
After you have made sure everything is running fine you can then format the older 40G and use it for storing files.

p.s. If you recieved a CD with the SATA drive the utilities are on there...just put it in and boot from it.