SATA setup and boot!

ok guys here's a couple of questions i'd be greatful to get some answers:
1) Is it necessary during the installation of winxp to install also the Promise drivers for my S-ATA disk by pressing F6? I made the installation of winxp on my S-ATA disk without installing the Promise drivers and the disk seems to work ok. Is this the correct way to be done?  
2) I have also installed in the system a small 10gb IDE drive for backup reasons. The strange thing that happens is that if i unplug the IDE drive from the pc, the system wont boot from the SATA. I guess i have tried all possible combinations in Legacy and Native modes in BIOS but no luck. When I re-install the IDE drive the system boots up normally.
In case this can help for your replies....the IDE drive got the drive letter C: and the S-ATA drive the letter D: automatically during the installation of winxp (OS is installed in SATA though).
Any help in what I can do for the system to boot up from the SATA drive?
Thanks in advance,
Yiannis!

Well the problem is that XP installed the boot files to the IDE drive and the rest of XP to the SATA. I'm sure a real WinXP guru could fix this easily but I'm afraid I don't know how.
I came across this problem trying to setup a Raid array and the only fix I could find was to disconnect or disable ALL drives except the one I was installing XP to. After the install was complete, I re-installed the drive and formatted it and everything went fine.

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