Hi,
What happen if you Right click " My Computer" and select  Manage.
On The Computer Management expand the Storage and select " Disk Management".
On there Make sure the C:\Partition selected and click on the Setting icon
on the Toolbar at the top, there you will see two tabs:

Appearance  |   Scaling  

Click on Appearance  and change the settings to be Primary partition.
The same with the Other IDE and you can assign a Drive Letter for it and set
it to  Secondary  Partition.
HTH.
nass
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Each and every disk can be assigned one active partition and most of the
time each and every disk does have an active partition.  If you have
three hard disks in your computer you can have three active partitions
and that doesn't make any difference whatsoever to the operating system,
the active partition on which the operating system booted from will be
labeled as the System partition and the other active partitions will
simply be shown as active.

John

rbel:
Since you don't indicate otherwise, I'm assuming you're not experiencing any
significant problem here other than some slight pause during bootup re the
system recognizing the PATA (IDE) HDD.

It's perfectly normal in your configuration that the system (Disk
Management) would be reflecting your boot drive, the SATA HDD as
"Healthy(System)" and your secondary HDD as "Healthy(Active)".

It's possible the Disk 0 - 1 reversals are due to the boot priority order in
your motherboard's BIOS. Possibly that setting indicates the PATA HDD
occupies a higher order of priority than the SATA (or SCSI) HDD. The system
will still (usually) default to the bootable SATA HDD under those
circumstances when it finds the PATA HDD to be an unbootable device - I'm
assuming, of course, that your PATA HDD is not bootable. Actually, I'm not
really sure whether that accounts for the Disk 0 -1 reversals in your
situation, but you might want to check out your boot priority (and any
related) BIOS settings.
Anna