Need Help with SATA, IDE, XP problem

So I recently had a motherboard go bad so I ordered a duplicate Asus A7N8X-E motherboard. I bought a new WD raptor drive for a clean install and I have a 250 gig IDE drive that has Windows Vista on it that I can no longer use..

I did a clean install on the Raptor drive of XP, had to use the SATA controller drivers on a floppy to get it to work. Then i plugged in my IDE drive and changed my bios so that I would boot the SCSI(sata) drive first(had problems unless i did that, it tried to boot the IDE). Everything worked perfect once i had the right settings. I could see the IDE drive in windows, manipulate it. So i thought since everything was running smoothly i could connect my DVD-R drive back up. So i switched a few things around and connected a DVD drive, DVD-R drive and my IDE HD on my ide channels(I think I may have switched the channel on the HD, from master to primary, but i didn't think that mattered much??). Sorry this is long winded i just want u to know my process.

Well now half if not 90 percent of the cable configurations i try, windows will load the SATA drive, but right as the blue windows welcome screen is supposed to come up it turns itself off kinda like a tv screen turning off. No windows boots up cause i dont hear the welcome windows sound. So is that the graphics card? Or is the old IDE HD giving me problems? I suspected it was the IDE, cause i tried to copy some files (mp3, documents etc,) when i had a succesful boot up with both the raptor and IDE, and it completely locked up my system about half way through the copy, and made a clicking sound I think i just need to format it completely and get rid of old vista and everything, but I NEED some of the files on my IDE HD. So i need help figuring out why the IDE HD could be causing my whole windows to not load up, it shoudln't be a bad drive as its fairly new(less then a year old). I just got the Raptor drive as an added speed bonus. The weird thing is, if i unplug the IDE hd completely the raptor drive now wont boot up the fresh Windows XP install i just did, its like its needing that IDE drive now, it sucks.

Any suggestions on programs that can copy HD folders(specficall IDE to SATA not in Windows) easily would be well appreciated, And does my IDE drive since it was initially setup as lets say the E, have to stay that way in the config for windows to boot back up properly again? Alot of questions I know...thanks for any help!