Not able to install on the hard disk controller sata

Hello,
Here is short of ideas: I have a motherboard Asus p4pe with EIDE channels and 2 hard disk Pata from 80 to 320 gigabyte. I bought a controller Hamlet PCI to have a channel on which sata hd install a Western Digital Caviar SE AA 320GB 16MB SATA-II ... obviously set on SATA 1.

Problem ... I installed correctly but the controller to install and then format the hard disk not sen speaks: ... that is the hard disk is correctly seen by bios and windows xp, the problem is formatted, you can not either Managed computer or with the owner of WD, nor with partition magic, nor Acronis nor Paragon ... every program leads me to different results ... sometimes impossible saying complete formatting ... other times hard disk damaged .. . sometimes seems formatted but in reality it is not.
(Important: the hard disk works correctly on another computer does not have any problems, the problems come when the hard disk on this pc)
I formatted ntfs and gives me all these different results.
I then tried in Fat 32 ... seems to be able to format and partition ... even then I try to copy files and zip rar unpacked but leaving many errors ... or opening a file. Fathers do not see anything or I gives error ... in short does not work either as FAT.

Do you have something to recommend? in addition of course to mount it elsewhere ....

This may be important for example to update the BIOS on the motherboard?
PATA hard disk in the 320 is seen and works well.
The hard disk is WD SATA2 but I put the jumper on the limitation to SATA1

What do I do?

Many of computer users who are early adapters of Windows Vista likes to have both their previous version and newer version of OS under dual boot mode.

One common problem with newer hardware and older Microsoft OS such as Windows XP is the incompatibility of SATA controllers.

Most of the newer desktop and notebooks are now days coming with SATA HDD instead of older and slower PATA versions, however the major problem with Windows XP is one must install the SATA controller drivers while booting via their floppy drive but here catch is, how many of us now days have a floppy drive ?


To avoid this problem of no hard disk at the time of installation of Windows XP / 2000 / Server 2003 which needs floppy disk to load the SATA controller driver, all modern computer BIOS offers option to emulate the Hard disk operation mode.

All though this would solve the problem of legacy pre Windows Vista OS installation problem, however often windows vista crashes while running under a PC which has SATA HDD operation mode emulated to IDE.

Microsoft has a patch for all version of Windows Vista to solve this problem.

When a SATA hard disk on a Windows Vista-based computer is operating in Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (PATA) mode, the computer may crash.

Please note, if you have a single boot system running with SATA HDD, its always recommended not to emulate the SATA HDD operation mode to IDE. This is only for those who are willing to run under dual boot with pre Windows Vista OSes.