Installing a serial drive

[Henderson]

Ok, I'm not getting anywhere with doing this, probably need a certain sequence to happen.

I have the Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo newly installed (with AMD 2500+XP). Currently I have 2 harddrives on IDE Channel 1 (40 GB master, 13 GB slave), and a DVD and CD-RW on IDE Channel 2. SATA jumper is set to disabled, the SATA drivers are not installed yet (booklet said don't install without a serial drive in place, it can cause system instability).

I want to install the 120 GB serial drive now and copy over the full contents of the current boot drive, the 40 GB. Once everything is copied over, will make the 120 GB serial the boot drive and the 40 GB the 2nd drive. The DVD and CD-RW will remain on IDE Channel 2.

I'm getting a lot of "Disk Boot Drive not found" how I'm trying it.

What exactly is the sequence I should be doing?

I'm thinking install the SATA drivers first with system as is. Shut down, switch SATA jumper to enabled on mobo. Leave 40 GB as is, set as master. Install 120 GB serial drive, connect to secondary SATA channel? Boot up, check BIOS which will probably show no second hard drive since it won't be formatted yet.

Will that sequence get me to boot up so I can format the 120 GB and copy over the contents of the 40 GB to it? Once that's done, then switch the jumpers on the 40 GB to slave? And move SATA cable to Primary SATA connection?

The end result should have the 120 GB serial on primary SATA connection; 40 GB EIDE drive on IDE channel 1; DVD and CD-RW on IDE channel 2.

Is there any reason I cannot make a mirror copy of the current IDE boot drive onto the new serial drive because of having different controllers?

Thanks for any help.