How to install a second IDE disk?

[Volodymyra]

Hi, I have a doubt. My computer has a Serial ATA hard drive, I have installed in the Windos Vista and is where I keep all my files. A friend sold me an IDE hard disk at a great price and I would like to install it on my machine to install Windows XP there. My question is how should I install and configure it, so that my ATA disk remains the primary. My motherboard has two IDE channels, in the primary have a DVD burner configured as master and a CD-ROM configured as a slave. How should connect these two units and IDE hard disk?. Well, I like that I could help with these concerns, and in advance, Thanks!

[AugieBenDoggie]

Well this environmental complexity, if you install the XP as this would be the first starter, but the view already installed do not think that you acknowledge, the only way that I can think of but do not know if work is getting the disk from XP view and try to install this to leave the option of booting either OS, but if it is as if tapeworms before and wanted to install XP 98 did not make it by being more ancient, this option could not make it.

[Tomaz]

First, the physical configuration would read:

SATA
Primary IDE Master
DVD-RW Primary Slave
CD-ROM secondary master

Before you install XP off the SATA disk and install XP on the IDE (primary teacher booteable), after the end of the installation put the SATA, you download EasyBCD, and then set (add) the dual-boot Vista / XP.

It may also be able to install XP without disconnecting the drive (seeing as the installation of XP does not detect SATA disks), but I have not tried it, and to do that kind of evidence usually ends with a mandatory format of one of the discs .

[Volodymyra]

Done well, I installed the disk as the primary master, but I could not connect the DVD burner because the IDE cable is too small, if I can get a longer. If not, can I connect the DVD RW drives as secondary master and slave CD ROM side? As the installation of XP proved so, without disconnecting the SATA or disconnect, well, if the installation disc for XP allows, and as a result both for the help!