PCI Sata card

[mad1231moody]

Now friends I am getting a bit frustrated here . I got a SATA HDD 10 days ago.Even got a PCI sata card from VIA company. I installed the PCI card, booted my XP. It asked for drivers and I installed the drivers using the software CD. Now when I went to disk mangement, I found my HDD with 233 GB. Windows asked me to initialize the drive. I clicked next and after sometime it said failed to initalize with some error. I removed the card and installed it again in the slot. I was able to see the drive in disk management and was successful this time to intialize the drive. Now I right-clicked on the drive and clicked on New Partition, and without making any changes I selected the whole size of the disk and then create partition. But after a minute or so the computer hanged. When I restart the system the computer freezes on Windows Xp boot screen. When I disconnect the sata HDD the computer boots normally. Now really I am in a fix as to what to do.The device manager shows the SCSI controller fine. Have a look

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/6595/capture4bi3.th.jpg (http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture4bi3.jpg)


Here is a screenshot of the contents of the driver CD.
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7910/capture5bm7.th.jpg (http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture5bm7.jpg)

And by the way my mobo is ASRock 845GV

[mad1231moody]

Friends I Have Via 6421 controller card. Visited the forum http://www.tkarena.com/forums/ide-sata-raid-arena/ . But was not able to find a thing. I beg for your help friends

[mad1231moody]

Friends I have already tried a converter and got the PCI card too. Now I don't have any money to try out anything new. So please please help me out

[raghunath77]

try with u'r sata hdd as master and install xp on the new hdd. unplug u'r old hdd.

[ax3]

did it work ?