Cloned hard drive does not boot

I have an old G4 Cube which I decided to upgrade with some spare parts. The HDD I replaced was a 5400rpm 20GB Maxtor that appears to be the original, and the replacement drive is a 7200rpm 30GB Quantum Fireball that was pulled out of a Windows machine. Both are IDE, obviously.
I used an external USB to IDE adapter to mount the new hard drive, formatted it to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", and restored the original hard drive to the new one using Disk Utility.
The new hard drive doesn't want to boot when I put it in the system. It started up, chimed, restarted for some reason, then froze at the screen with the apple and the spinning circle.
If this were a Windows computer, I'd suspect the MBR didn't get cloned properly. I'm not sure if there's a similar problem with Macs.
And I'm not too keen on using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper when I can have a free alternative.
Does anyone have a solution? I've tried resetting the PRAM, etc. Is my HDD incompatible?
Thanks in advance

Hi-
Disk Utility images are difficult to get right for most people.
If this were a Windows computer, I'd suspect the MBR didn't get cloned properly. I'm not sure if there's a similar problem with Macs.
You are probably correct in your thinking. Different, yet similar in function.
And I'm not too keen on using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper when I can have a free alternative.
Huh?
CCC is voluntary shareware and the basic full clone version of SD! is freeware.
SD! is the better of the two, and definitely worth having.
Both are much better than Disk Utility.
Does anyone have a solution?
Use SuperDuper!.

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