UPDATE: Ok, so i went ahead and wired up the two drives and I went through the RAID setup utility setting it to RAID 0 and put the drives together. I also changed the settings in the BIOS to configure SATA as RAID. I now changed the boot order to:
CD/DVD
Hard Drive
Removable
However, right when the XP Pro boot disc tells you to press a key to boot from cd, I get another error stating: Disc Boot Failure, Insert Bootable Disc. The CD spins up, but windows will not load. It seems to be looking for the file in my floppy drive. My motherboard (Asus A8V-XE) has 4 SATA controllers, 2 of which are red and say Master, and 2 of wich are black and say Slave. I tried connecting the drives to both and I still get the same error. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
When you insert a windows xp install disc and boot into the setup, one of the options you will see is install RAID drivers, you'll need them on a floppy disk.
PROBLEM SOLVED! Ok this is what I did. Quite simple actually and it solved all of my problems. I simply removed the other 2 SATACD drives I had hooked up and I hooked up an IDE CD drive and voila. I booted the drivers from the floppy and away the Windows disc went. So I guess there was just some interference between the CD drives. Thanks for your help anyways!
