Windows installation cannot recognize my hard drive

[Gism0]

A friend of mine brought me a fujitsu siemens laptop (amilo pro) with a Samsung Sata HM060II hard drive that was not logging into windows xp. I ve put it into a usb case and run a virus scan on it that cleared the virus and the disk was working properly. When i logged in windows i ve notice so many spyware that i tried to format the drive immediately.On my friends laptop the win xp installation disk wouldnt recognise any hard disks so i ve tried installing it on the drive as an external usb drive from my laptop.The installation failed with a blue screen for hardware failure. I bought a new hard drive (Samsung SATA HM160HI) that i partitioned and formatted. ( primary, NTFS). Neither XP or Windows 7 installation recognize it. i can work on it from my laptop as an external usb drive. i ve run several diagnostic tools from my friends laptop with a boot cd and every software recognize it, give me details, scan it for errors. The bios even recognize it.
I need to install an OS on it!
any ideas or suggestions? i ve been working for a week on it. its getting exhausting.

[Ernesto4]

In the My Computer icon then click the button and it bites right where it says manage. In the Device Manager on the disc, you should see a SATA controller. If the first note the BIOS that the SATA is in IDE mode if you do not start and if the second or larger is a ****ing virus or damage your system and only ps pc tools recovery DOS as it could restore. On the other hand if you connect to another pc as a slave does not let you access it.