Well I'd wipe the drive clean using Gparted with a cross format. Do a minimal kickstart installation to install GRUB on the MBR.
I've read a bit on kickstart installations, and now I get to delve deeper :) Thanks for the advice!
Can't you put the SATA drive on native instead of IDE in your bios ? It decreases performance and could be problematic.
Quite right, all of the information that I found on the grub error paired SATA and RAID. I chose this because I wanted to remove the variable of a RAID installation. In retrospect, that was an unfounded idea.
Thanks, Rob