Cannot Copy A120 Hard Drive (Locked)

Hi,
I have a Satellite Pro A120, which has a small hard drive 55GB, and the HDD Password Utility is used and I have to put the password in every time I start the laptop.
I have purchased a 250 Gig Sata Drive to replace it because it is too small really.
Right first I took the original drive out and attached it to my desktop computer and it wasn't even recognized, then I remembered the lock,
Ok I then left the drive in my laptop booted up and attached my new drive Partitioned and formatted it and proceeded to use Norton Ghost to copy my hard drive, now when I swap the drives in my laptop everything is great I unlock the drive with my usual password and proceed through the first XP Pro black windows screen however when it gets to the Blue Windows screen it just hangs, I have restarted and tried a few times but to no avail.
What I did notice is I went into the bios with the new drive installed and the HDD password said not registered, but my original drive says registered.
Could somebody please help me, I would be so grateful...
Thanks In Advance
Acestu

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