[RESOLVED] Ensuring a SATA drive as slave and IDE HD as master

[A31Chris]

I have an ASUS a8n-sli motherboard. I have one IDE drive that is the master. I had a 450 gig SATA drive that I wanted to use for a secondary data storage until I found out it was bad. I was trying to see if it would automatically use my IDE as the master and the SATA as the slave though from what I understand by default this would not be the case. I installed the SATA and upon bootup it went through BIOS fine and everything but upon loading windows the Windows XP screen comes up with the little loading bar. but it was very dim and it seems the system locks up. It even got to and goes past the script I put in to choose 'XP standard or safe mode" with the little 30 second countdown at which time it automatically chooses standard bootup. So it did appear to read the IDE as master even though the SATA was hooked up.However now that I know the SATA was bad, maybe it would of defaulted to the SATA before my IDE if it had been a good drive.

My question is, how can I assure that when I grab a new SATA drive the SATA will be the slave and the IDE drive the master?

I am including all relevant BIOS screenshots I can find.

OS Windows XP Home SP3.