Dimension 8400-problem is not not be able to dual boot

I posted earlier about a bios option, and that has been resolved. Now after you delete the RAID 0 I am not able to dual boot. My specs are: Vista is Sata0, Sata1 is Win XP, Sata2 is spare (no OS) and BIOS is set to RAID Autodetect/AHCI. Now when I do a F12 for the boot menu all that it shows is on CD or hard drive SATA Boot. It does not show the 2 hard drives as it did until I deleted the Raid... I see all 3 HDs in Vista. If I set the bios to Raid Autodetect / ATA - no change. If I put the combination, then I get the screen on startup of Windows normalally, which it isn't, and if I choose Safe mode it goes back to the previous screen to start windows normally. What Miss me? What should I do to get it to dual boot again? Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Carole


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