Quick Driver Question for G31M3-V2

I just bought a G31M3 V2 on sale from Frys with a E5200. I also bought a new SATA drive at the same time. I installed Vista x64, last night (cleanly with a reformat), on an IDE drive that I had, and I was trying to get the system to see my SATA drive. I Popped in an Ubuntu CD so I could use the live portion to see if I could see the SATA drive. I could see it, and I formatted it to NTFS. I also placed some files on there to test it out. The drive was working perfectly and Ubuntu has full access to it. But I still can't see it in Windows.
Vista doesnt even see an "unidentified device" or anything. I keep trying to install the drivers from the Mobo CD, but I can't get any of them to install.
I went to the drivers online (http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1449) and downloaded "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver". When I try to run it, I get the message: "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will exit."
I have no idea what to do to get Vista to see my drive. I have re-installed Vista 3 times already to try different things, and at no time has the drive been detected. But Ubuntu continutes to be able to see and access the drive. What do I do?

Success and Failure at the same time.
I decided to go to bed, since it didn't look like I was going to get any more help today, so I went for the shut-down. I clicked the windows button, and accidentally hit the power symbol instead of that little arrow that gives you the options of shut down, restart, hibernate, etc. The power button just suspended the machine, and when I got back into Vista to do a proper shut down, the machine said it had identified my SATA drive! I went and looked and yes, it was there, with all the files I had put on it as well! I opened up a few of them and they all worked. I was happy that the situation had been resolved and went to do a shut-down again.
But then I decided to do a restart instead, to see if my access to the drive stuck around. I restarted and the HD had disappeared from the drives list! So I tried to recreate what I did previously, I suspended the machine and then logged back it. Yep, the drive had been detected again and it was running perfectly.
So in conclusion, it seems Vista doesn't see the drive unless I suspend the machine first, and then log back in. If I shut down or restart, the drive disappears from Vista, and I have to do the suspension trick again.
What could be the problem?

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