MacBook Pro Won't Boot after Firmware Update

So I just upgraded to a MacBook Pro which came in the mail yesterday. I removed the Apple-installed HD and swapped it out for a bigger, faster HD. I installed OS X from scratch, imported everything from my Time Machine backup during the Setup Assistant, and then started installing updates. Everything was running swimmingly until the last updates.
What happened is when I rebooted my MacBook Pro and logged in after a series of updates, I got presented with both a Bluetooth update and a Firmware update at the same time. Both required a restart so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone. I installed the Bluetooth update, and then when it asked to reset I installed the Firmware update instead. However, the firmware update didn't behave as advertised because instead of shutting the MacBook Pro completely down, it restarted and then started installing the firmware update.
Ever since the firmware update (which I think installed correctly but don't know how to verify), I cannot boot my MacBook Pro. Using the OS X install DVD I can view my firmware version using System Profiler, and the number it is reporting is MBP53.00A.B03.
I have tried booting in verbose mode to try and get a feel for the problem, and it eventually hangs on an infinite loop saying something about not being able to find something on disk0s2.
I also thought I would fix the problem by doing an Archive and Install, but it quit at the very beginning of installing with the error "unknown error".
Also I thought I would format the disk with Disk Utility and then try installing again, but Disk Utility reports that it in unable to unmount the volume.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
-- Update --
Remember how I'm unable to unmount the drive? I force unmounted it and then used Disk Utility to repair the volume, but still no luck.
I think the key to the problem is this new HD I put in runs at 3 Gbps. I think I read somewhere that the new MacBook Pro's don't support that.
I think next I should try swapping out the new HD in my MacBook Pro with the one it originally came with. What do you think?

I, too, have a brand new MBP 15" that I put an Intel X25 in. At the 1.5 (Prior to Firmware Update) setting, it worked fine. I rant the Firmware Update, all looked fine, but the drive is no longer able to be seen.
Flash the PRAM, per other suggestions to no avail. Boot off of the DVD and disk utility nor Profiler sees the drive.
Replace the drive with the stock that came with the MBP (which I had never even used) and it works.
Put the Intel X25 into a Windows machine and it works fine. Reformatted it (in windows) and put it back into my MBP. Still not able to see it (from the Disk utility after booting off the DVD).
Intel's firmware for the drive says its up-to-date (new drive) and if I attempt to "re-run" the Mac Firmware Update, it says that the machine is already up-to-date.
Seems odd that it worked before an now it doesn't. Also seems odd that the X25 works in other machines. And that my MBP works just fine with the stock Hitachi 7200 320GB drive.
Ideas? Intel says to call Apple Support. Not sure what I can say to them.

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Macbook Pro won't boot after Mountain lion upgrade

I bought the Mountian Lion upgrade and it installed fine on my MacBook Pro, and the machine worked fine yesterday. I performed a normal shutdown, and today it won't boot up. The Apple logo and the spinning pinwheel is all I get. Is there a known issue?

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Macbook Pro won't boot after TM restore

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My MacBook Pro was running snow leopard with all the latest updates, when the hard drive crashed. I booted from the dvd that came with the macbook, osx 10.5.4, restored the latest Time Machine backup. Everything seemed fine until I try to reboot. I get the grey screen and the message:"You need to press the powerbutton for several seconds". I've reset the pram, powermanager and ran a hardware check that turned out ok. Does anyone have any clues as to what's wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Regards, Espen Noreger

enoreger wrote:
Hi.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
My MacBook Pro was running snow leopard with all the latest updates, when the hard drive crashed. I booted from the dvd that came with the macbook, osx 10.5.4, restored the latest Time Machine backup. Everything seemed fine until I try to reboot. I get the grey screen and the message:"You need to press the powerbutton for several seconds". I've reset the pram, powermanager and ran a hardware check that turned out ok. Does anyone have any clues as to what's wrong?
Yes. You need to use your +Snow Leopard+ Install disc, not the Leopard one.

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