IDE fried, SATA will not boot

I have a XP setup with primary IDE as storage disk and a SATA drive for
boot/XP. The IDE has fried and died on me. I now cannot boot the pc, it
says it cannot find boot record.

Could it that the SATA drive has gone also? Or is it that the SATA
cannot boot without the IDE in place?

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