After your system reboots, you should be able to view your drive array in My Computer as a new hard drive, but drive letter C: will still be assigned to your ATA drive. The BIOS setup routine in many newer systems lets you set the boot order of your hard drives to boot from the drive array instead. Reboot your system and use the appropriate keystroke or key combination to enter your PC's BIOS setup routine (F2, for our test system). Then look for an option that lets you change the boot order; in our test system's BIOS, it was Hard Disk Drives within the Boot menu.
If your system provides no way to change the hard drive boot order, you may need to remove your existing ATA drive to coax the system into booting from your fast new SATA array. Another option is to leave your ATA drive as the boot drive but move all or select data and applications to the new drive array.
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