I did just this yesterday using an IDE cable with three connectors. I made the HD the master and the DVD drive the slave. No problems with it in XP Pro.
yeah i got a extra one laying around and anyways my sata drive reads as a F drive lol but if i have windows xp and some programs will it still work
(sry for the first post it was real late like 5am and i hadda go to sleep otherwise i woulda gave more info =D)