Removing IDE boot DISK and start using PCI SATA card

I have a computer where
the Primary boot partion is IDE and connected to the main board.
I also have a PCI Sata card with two HD.

I want to get rid of the IDE HD and use only the SATA hds.

I used ghost to copy the Boot partion to the first SATA disk / partion.
Then I disconnected the IDE and restarted the computer.
The computer started normally only to halt later in the "welcoming
window"

I think it might be a driver problem. though it did start to load the
OS.

I tried to use the recovery tool from the XP setup CD but the CD boot
failed recognizing the SATA. ( I also don't have a floppy drive, so I
cant load a driver using the F6 in the boot process )

Buy a floppy, or maybe create a slipstreamed winxp installation that has the
sata card drivers integrated into it

You might be able to put the IDE back in, install the SATA driver and
recopy the data to the SATA. Otherwise, get a floppy. Drivers needed
to boot Windows are one of the few things left that need floppy
drives.

Will it boot in safe mode?

thats what strange. I used the SATA card & the attached drivers as
storage place for long time. so the window on the IDE has the SATA
drivers.

When I disconnected the IDE the windows start but stuck on the
welcoming page. maybe some of the drivers are loaded on boot and some
that are loaded after boot ?

Of course, no sata/raid drivers, to reiterate install from floppy, F6,
during the repair installation of win, but of course you have no floppy.
Go out and buy one

The drivers must be different then.

You'll need to get the driver that Windows needs to do an install to
the SATA. It should be on the driver disk that came with the
motherboard. You'll need a floppy.

Ok, i attached a floppy driver and loaded the correct driver.
But it still stuck.
I think the Window halt on boot because I named that HD as Z:

And I cant change it to C: on an active OS.
I assume its possible that Windows map the Letters to Hardware ID.

Does that make logic ?
Is it possible to change that ?

[StephenQF]

If you ghost over an image from an ide to a sata you can not boot to the sata until you fix the master boot record. If windows every saw the SATA drive while you are boot up to the ide drive it will have marked it's partitions with a drive letters other than C. So you get to the welcome screen and it can not go any farther.
Disconnect the ide drive and connect the ghosted SATA drive. Boot to a dos floppy or a CD with a dos boot image on it. at the dos prompt type "fdisk /mbr". This will reinitialize the boot record. The boot record will not have the signatures of any of the drives. Windows will boot and mark the first SATA partition as the C drive. There are other ways to do it but this is what I use. I usually ghost partitions and not disks. If you ghosted a disk you probably do not need to do this. I hope this works for you.