Installing 2nd SATA hard drive, but it won't let me!

Hi i have bought a 2nd SATA hard drive, but it wont work as both my SATAs want to be master, which i thought you could do with SATAs anyway. However, Windows just wont load with them both installed, it doesnt like having 2 masters.

Any ideas?

My PC spec is as follows (is new and will be upgraded with performance stuff asap)
Pentium 4 505 2.66ghz
Intel® D915GAG (Augsburg) Mainboard
1.5gb DDR memory

Cant think of anything else that really matters...

audin

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There's no such thing as "Master" drives in SATA nomenclature. What errors are you getting with your setup? Additionally, are you wanting to install on one drive, and use the other as a second drive, or are you wanting to run a RAID system?

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