Drive configuration problem K8N NEO4 F1

First, a little history. Prior to setting up this computer I had an 845PE Max3 with SATA RAID1. I was able to insert an IDE hard drive with no confusing problems. It was seen immediately as drive F: by windows and I was able to use it for back up purposes.
This is not the case with the new board.  I have XP Pro SP2 on SATA Raid0.  If I disable IDE Channel 1 (extra hard drive) then Windows sees the raid as the C: drive.
If I enable IDE 1 XP automatically changes the drive letter of IDE 1 to C: (it sees it as Disk 0) and the Raid becomes F: (IDE 0 has two CD/DVD roms).
It would appear that the bios give priority to IDE or something?  The IDE 1 disk is formatted NTFS but contains no boot info or operating system.
Obviously, if I now remove the IDE disk then XP will no longer boot.
My question is how to insure that XP sees the raid as Disk 0?
Thanks

I was careful about 'boot order'.  Looking again with partitioning software it would seem that the Raid is showing as Disk 0 in the bios and the IDE as Disk 1.
I have now got it to show up in windows but it shows as Disk 0 and the Raid as Disk 1. Unfortunately, XP is showing it as an 'unknown partition' with no drive letter and the only option it gives me is to delete the partition.  As I have back ups on the disk, that option is a nono.
Still stuck but at least Windows still boots!
EDIT :- Problem sorted but lost the data. Now seen as drive F:

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