I do not want XP to boot from SATA drive

[SATA newbie]

I am trying to save documents from a XP bootable SATA drive with corrupt files (including the ntfs driver). I am unable to start it with the recovery console on the XP installation CD. So I am trying to save the disk or some of its contents, in another PC.

When adding this SATA drive to another PC with A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 with XP Pro XP1, my setting of HDD-0 (a traditional PATA disk) as boot disk is disregarded, and it looks like the PC tries to boot from the newly added SATA drive :-(  

Please, tell me that this is not true, and that this is some operator (me) error.... The Asus/Nvidia/Silicon Image engineers just can't be this stupid.

[xigma]

on the asus p4p800 i have it will always default to booting from the most recently installed drive, be it ide, or usb

to correct this enter the bios setup, choose the boot option, then from harddisk drives pick the original pata hdd, thn goto the boot devices priority and check the newly selected pata drive has become the primary boot drive, if not hit enter on the primary entry and select the pata drive from the list

also in the main bios menu check the ide configuration menu is set to enhanced mode, otherwise the bios will disable one of the pata channels when the sata drive is installed

.:xigma:.