SATA - Disk boot failure

Hello,
I am experiencing problems booting from my Seagate baracude SATA drive.
I just bought this system and I am trying to install windows xp on it.
But after the copy of files it wont boot from the SATA drive.
In the BIOS I can only select these options:
SCSI
HDD-0
HDD-1
HDD-2
HDD-3
Tried all 5 and none works.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
thanks!

Your boot sequence in the main BIOS does not matter, since the drive you wish to boot from is on the RAID controller. This means that the system must fail to boot to your primary boot devices, and must then look elsewhere to boot. i.e. the RAID controller. So, make your primary boot sequence CDROM, Floppy, Disabled, and make sure that "boot other device" is enabled.
Then you must set your RAID bios to boot to your SATA hard drive. You can configure this by pressing CTRL+F at the Promise RAID BIOS prompt that appears right before the system boots. Once in the menu you must select a bootable array.
Also note that after simply copying the files to your SATA drive, the drive may not be bootable because it is likely that no master boot record was written. You may need to either use your OS install disk to fix the boot record, or you need to reinstall the OS.
Good luck.

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