Trouble installing Raptor 74 Gig as system/boot drive

I have to have windows XP installed on an IDE drive AND SATA drive.  I can't get windows off my IDE drive w/o getting a "cannot find ntldr" file.  help.

yeah, this blows.  I have to choose between 1 of 2 Windows XP on my computer.  Even though I reformatted the old IDE that had the OS, I still had to include it in the installation of my Raptor just as a SATA and not in RAID.  The Maxtor "system" drive still has the ntldr, boot.ini, and NTDETECT.   This IDE drive also has a pagefile.
And my Raptor has windows directory on it too, but not the holy Trinity of ntldr, boot.ini, and ntdetect.  But it has a windows folder and a pagefile on it.
Was I supposed to set the IDE's (my intention is to use them for storage) to "cable select?"
TOmmorrow I will call these folks in this order:
Western Digital
MSI
Microsoft (I figure this is an installation issue so they have to do it for free even though I have successfully installed XP twice(!) on the same machine.

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