Help Needed Installing Boot Camp

Hi,
Hope someone out there is able to help. I have tried searching the forum but none found.
I have just upgraded my harddisk using Carbon Copy Cloner.
The new harddisk boots up fine.
But when I tried to install Boot Camp on the new harddisk using the Boot Camp Assistant, it gave me this error
" The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition".
I have already partitioned using Disk Utility as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume.
I have also Repair Disk Permissions.
The OS is Leopard 10.5.4
Please help. I could not even get pass the first step in installing Boot Camp.
Thanks

Problem solved.
1) Repartitioned in GUID.
2) Carbon Copy to clone the harddisk.
3) Run Boot Camp Assistant.

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