Booting off of SATA drive

Hi, I recently got a new SATA HDD which I wish to boot off of when I reformat my system, its a Maxtor brand. I have heard however not to use the software that Maxtor included with the drive for partitioning, and setting up the SATA software because they're shitty or something.

Anyways, I need a recommendation for a good tool/software for that will allow my system to recognize the SATA drive so that I may partition, format and install my OS onto it.