Installing a second SATA hard drive - Problems booting

Hi,
I currently have one Maxtor 160GB SATA hard drive in my system with my operating system installed. I have another identical hard drive that I'm attempting to install now, into the second of five available SATA ports on my MSI P965 Neo motherboard.
When I plug in the second hard drive, though, Windows will not boot. It gets to the Windows logo screen with the progress animation, but before even the animation can begin, it stops and the screen freezes. This does not fix itself with waiting.
My boot priorities are set to: DVD-ROM, CD-RW, hard risk. The hard disk priorities are also as they should be to my knowledge - although it can be tricky because when ordering, both disks have the same name. I have tried with either one on top of the list, and you cannot remove a drive from the list alltogether.
The SATA cable is in perfect condition. My BIOS is up-to-date.
When I plug the hard drive in when the system is already running, Windows will detect it and files can be written/read flawlessly. As soon as I restart, however, I run into the same issue.
The first HDD, with the OS on it, is in SATA 1, the second HDD is in SATA 4. Ports 3, 6, and 7 are unused.
I'm out of ideas at this point, I don't see any other options that need to be changed.
I'd appreciate any input you can offer - thanks in advance!

I would debug this drive you are talking about which clears off all data and partitions information. Take out the good drive and leave in the dodgy one. Boot to a floppy with this dell win95 boot disc.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R19775&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=19601
When at the A: prompt: type debug and enter, you get a (-) prompt and then enter the following script exactly:
F 200 L1000 0 (enter)
A CS:100 (enter)
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 (enter)
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 (enter)
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 (enter)
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (enter)
xxx:010C INT 13 (enter)
xxxx:010E INT 20 (enter)
xxxx:0110 (enter)
g (enter)
q (enter)
restart your system.
Now you can put back in your first drive as well, boot up into windows and use the disc manager to repartition and format.
Old school! If you are still having problems I would replace the drive.

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Quote from: roller on 27-March-06, 08:33:35
Helo , I am hoping someone can help me with this. I have read Fafner's thread on installing a sata hard drive on the neo4 mb but the only utility program I found on wd site is called " lifeguard11 for windows". Is this the right utility to use to partion my hard drive? I burned it to a cd and and my computer will post but will not boot from that cd. I have followed the instructions that came with the mb and used the floppys at F6 but it won't countinue to install windows after that.
Also I'm not sure how to enable sata in the bios. Do I go to integrated peripherals/sata devices config. and at the top of the screen it say's RAID Enable. Do I enable that and then enable sata1 raid? I am only using one hard drive. Thanks for help you can give.
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