Help! X60 won't boot with new 320GB hard drive..

I'm trying to get a Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB SATA drive working with my 1706-M7M X60 thinkpad.
I've cloned my existing OEM Hitachi 80GB to the new drive using Acronis True Image. So far I've done this four times so I'm thinking the cloning is not the issue.
BIOS has been switched to Compatibility mode.
The odd thing is that the resuce and recovery partition works but not the bootable windows partition?
I can also see all the files on the new drive, both partitions are visible when it is plugged in via the USB enclosure. They look fine.
I've been trying to get it working for 3 days and I'm ready to throw the notebook out the window!
Thanks in advance.
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If you are willing, I would recommend that you use Easeus Disk Copy. It is a bootable CD that will clone the drive sector-to-sector.
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