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bootable OS hard drive on Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 controller card?

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I need to switch my Operating System drive to a different IDE channel as I need the onboard one for a CD-RW drive that behaves unstable on the Ultra ATA/133 controller card. I already don't have enough room for a hard drive on the onboard IDE as I need that last space for a CD-RW drive. I know you shouln't hook a CD/DVD drive and hard drive to the same channel, so that is why I need to move my WIN XP OS drive to the controller card as I have 3 CD/DVD drives I need to connect. I have heard that the controller cards are meant for hard drives not CD/DVD-ROM or CD/DVD burner drives? I assume that is why my CD-RW drive is behaving poorly onb the Ultra ATA/133 card? So is there a way to make my OS drive boot as normal when connected to it's own cable on the Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 controller card? If I can't have a bootable hard drive on the Ultra ATA/133 controller, than I guess I will have to buy a SATA hard drive as my motherboard has an onboard SATA port.

Help greatly appreciated.
 
I have my hd on the Maxtor ata 133 controller card. If you don't want to reload windows, then plug the card in with nothing on it then the drivers in windows. Once that is done, then you put the hd onthe controller card and it'll work.
 
Could I have 2 hard drives on the Ultra ATA/133 card with one being bootable? Each hard drive would be on its own cable connected to each separate IDE port on the controller card. If so, would I experience any performance loss on my system or the drives?

The Ultra ATA/133 Controller card and a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer Sound Card are the only two things I have in the PCI slots on my motherboard.
 
it's best to:
insert card
turn on computer
install drivers
shut down system
plug HDD into card
turn computer back on

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make sure your bios is set to have a SCSI option. and dont install any new drives until the operating system is bootable.
 
I already have the card installed with drivers installed on Windows XP for it. Do I need to reinstall the drivers first?
 
If you already have the drivers installed then you don't need to reinstall them. Put the hd you want to boot off on the primary channel so that the computer will try to boot off that first.
 
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