A couple of important questions:
- Is this an existing OS install or a clean OS install?
- If it's an existing OS install are you replacing your IDE boot drive with the SATA drive, or is this just a secondary drive?
There should be seperate SATA controller drivers that came with your mobo, or you can download them from the mobo manufacturer's website.
If this is a clean OS install you MUST have a copy of the SATA drivers on a FLOPPY (not a CD or on the hard drive). When the WInXP installer comes up it will briefly prompt you to press F6 if you want to install SCSI or other controller drivers. Press F6, wait a few minutes and eventually it will prompt you for the floppy with the drivers.
The driver files must be on the floppy (usually there's 3 or 4 files). If you download the drivers as a zipped archive then you must unzip the files to the floppy.
If this is an existing OS but you want to replace your IDE drive with the new SATA drive then once you've cloned the old drive to the new one (using whatever utility came with the drive or Norton Ghost) then you need to do AT LEAST a boot sector repair to let Windows install the proper boot sectors on the new drive (this would not be necessary if you were swapping an IDE drive with another IDE drive).
The problem is that the SATA controller has a different hardware address than the IDE controller and WinXP will be looking for OS on the wrong hardware address unless you do a sector repair.
TO PERFORM A BOOT SECTOR REPAIR:
Boot from the XP Install CD-Rom, press F6 and provide the SATA drivers on a floppy as explained above. Choose the "Repair" option during setup from the first menu, and run the Recovery Console. When you are logged on, type FIXBOOT at the command prompt and hit the ENTER key.
This may not work, depending on a LOT of factors. If after doing the Sector Repair WinXP boots to a BSOD then you need to do a repair install of WindowsXP.
Instructions here:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm