A quick Google search and it seems like people have been running into similar issues although most people are trying to install Windows from scratch on a SATA drive. I saw this solution which might work:
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This may be of interest to anyone experiencing similar difficulties.
I was able to load XP on a SATA drive in an Intel DP35DP based system using an IDE optical drive in the following fashion.
In the BIOS, I selected "RAID" as the drive mode, and selected the CD drive as the boot drive.
On another system, I copied the RAID files from the Intel RAID driver floppy disk to a different location.
Using the freeware program nLite, I made an ISO image of XP. During the process nLite prompts for location of drivers. It is only necessary to point to the file containing the complete contents of the RAID floppy disk; nLite takes the .inf files that it needs. The last stage of nLite is to burn the ISO image to a CD.
I then booted from the ISO image CD and XP loaded. When prompted, I partitioned and formatted the SATA drive. Windows then finished loading in the normal way.
Best of Luck.
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You could use nLite to create an ISO of Windows XP with the RAID drivers included, boot using that disc, and do a Repair Install. Of course, you should hook the hard drive back into a working system and backup important data if possible before doing the Repair Install.