[865PE/G Neo2 Series] Just got my first SATA drive.. need help booting up.. :(

Hey guys
I just got my very first SATA drive. it's a Hitachi 160GB 7k250!
anyway, I wanted to set this new drive (partion 1 to be exact) as my PRIMARY or what I like to call SYSTEM drive.. this is where i store only my windows core files and program files..
My previous setup is that I have 2 PATA drives (Primary master and Secondary Master) and 2 DVD drives (Primary Slave and Secondary Slave)..
Now with the introduction of this new SATA drive, well, i didnt know what to do..
I got as far as setting my BIOS to: (forgive me if the following isnt exact terms as in the bios)
ATA = PATA Channel only
keep SATA = YES
(and some settings i can't remember)
I was able to boot my computer up with the SATA HD partitions set at the next available drive letters.
Now here's the problem.. I currently have an Image of my C: (system) created with Acronis TrueImage 8, and i restored that to my SATA drive's FIRST partition...
The first partition is also formatted with the same file system NTFS and is set to primary..
From here, i honestly dont know what to do..
ofcourse I will have to set bios to boot the SATA drive first...
Also, since the System image (windows XP) is that of DRIVE C: I have to somehow set the SATA drive to be HD0 (first channel)... playing around in my bios I have accomplised to have set my SATA drive as IDE channel 1 = Primary.. funny thing is the rest of the drives moved down starting at IDE Channel 3 and 4..
Still i went on to boot up.. but i was unsuccessfull. I get a very quick blue screen (about 50 miliseconds) and then my computer shuts off and reboots..
I played around witht he settings and tried many things.. still get the quick BSOD and then reboot problem
GUys? What am i missing here?
I didnt know this SATA drive was gona get complicated.. i thought i'd be up and running by now.. :( ..
Please lend me some of your knowledge peoplez.. :D
tea

Hi Danny,
Thanks for your reply.
I have followed your instructions to the dot.. now im getting as far as the WindowsXP Boot Screen... after an unusually long loading time, i get that BSOD flash which i really cant make out since the darn thing reboots right away.. :(
I also tried
Native Mode
ATA Configuration - SATA only
(changing this to SATA, thinking you were mistaken since am booting sata up.. but what do i know ei?)
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
same results... a long boot screen loading time.. then a quick BSOD..
I alsto tried booting up in safemode.. the loading stops at agp440.sys and reboots after a long pause at that part.
So now I switched back to your recommended settings, but this time setting my old hard drive to boot (PATA).
To my surprise im back to where i started (despite maintaining your suggested settings) thus i am replying to this post again..
also, i noticed that with your suggested settings, my SATA drive is on IDE channel 1.. and the rest on IDE channel 3 and 4.. but here in windows my old hard drive is still drive C:.. I was expecting my SATA drive to be Drive C this time.. could this be the problem here?
I mean the windows Image I restored is setup to work on drive C (first drive), although I removed all the drive, could it be that my SATA drive is still not on drive C?
Please help. My brain's bleeding
Tea

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