[Neil]

If your board needs a driver so XP can see your SATA drive it should come with the motherboard. Some boards don't, I have had to download them in the past. I am using a SATA drive in this but I can't remember if it needed a driver diak during install, I have not reinstalled for a long time.

I do think you have a BIOS setting issue. When it tries to boot it should be either booting from CD or complained that it can't find a boot device.