Need help with my serial ata drive

Ok. I have has a series of issues and am now just back online. Here is my main problem at this point.
I have a dual boot running on a wd raptor 36gig.
I updated my bios to 2.30 from 1.0 and this drive disapeared.
I managed to get it back by changes in bios.
I had my powersupply fail 1 day later (odd I know) but with trouble shooting this very odd failure I cleared my cmos (it didnt just fail it was a slow death that took about 6 hours).
So here I am with a new powersupply a cleared cmos and a fresh xp running on another hard disk. I can see the raptor I can see all my files but I want to boot from that disk again. I have read the sticky on raid setup and I did f6 when installing this os on this drive. I also checked the device manager and dont see the intel raid controllers when I try to install them from the msi driver disk they tell me my hardware is wrong. Does this mean they are already installed and its confused?
Any ideas how I can get it to boot? Thanks for the time.

Ok i figured it out. From diggin in this forum I found that the boot files have been loaded onto a older ide drive when I did the install of xp on my raptor. I will do some digging to see about moving those files over or what but I have the old disk back in now. It's funny how stable a system can be and how 1 problem can snowball into a few more ;p I love this board though

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