Changed internal hard drive but it won't start up using it

Thought I had everything covered but i seem to have missed something whilst changing my hard drive.
Having installed the new hard drive i then erased it using the mac os extended (journeled?) button. I then dragged over my folders etc from my carbon copy cloned external hard drive. i then attempted to reboot but the apple symbol on the start up went crazy with a question mark and danger type sign.
So having done a bit of research i don't think my macbook pro can see the new hard drive as its start up disk. its not showing up in the system preferences startup disk section.
Does anyone see an error from what I've written? Should I carbon copy clone my old hard drive files to the new hard drive rather just drag them over?
cheers

Well, i carbon cloned it back again from the external hard drive and now its working fine. i hope thats it but we'll see.
That is the correct procedure.

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