trink2

Hi and thanks for reading this.
I'm kind of a newb with this stuff, but I managed to learn some important things about my computer. First of all, my onboard primary IDE controller toasted (dunno if that's a good expression ). The thing is when I try to connect any device to that port, BIOS will recognize it but with some odd symbols and, in the case of OS HD, it won't boot up; with data HD and dvd drives, windows will see them but there's like a read/write error. I gave up with the mobo port, and my dad managed to get me a PCI IDE controller card so I could be able to rescue my dvd drives (rom and rw). Here's where the fun starts: the card does not recognize the dvd drives. Well, I was reading before my post and discover that some of this cards only work for HDs. Then I decided to move the dvds to the secondary onboard port and the HDs to the pci card. Everything seemed fine until I discovered windows wasn't loading. Checked BIOS boot settings and there were only three options: floppy, dvd-rom and dvd-ram.
Since then I've benn looking for a way to get the OS HD to boot from the pci card but the only options shown in the card bios are referred to RAID..

Now I'm testing the data HD in the card and it seems to work fine, but the card purchase would be useless if I can't make the system to boot from it. Any help is appreciated

For the record, the card is a COMPUSA Ultra ATA/133 PCI Card

P.D.: Forgive me about my lousy english