MBP won't recognise new internal HD, but sees old one fine...

Hi all,
I tried to replace my 160GB HD on my 2007 MBP with a Seagate Momentus 750GB drive today. Firstly I used SuperDuper to copy my OSX startup disk to the new drive, mounted in a USB caddy. I verified that the copy on the new drive was OK by alt-restarting my MBP with it connected in the caddy and selecting it as the startup disk. It started up fine.
So then I replaced my old HD with the new one, and started up. The drive was not recognised - I got the blinking questionmark folder... So I replaced the old HD and all was fine again. I did this twice, each time with the same result.
Does anyone know what might be causing this, and if I can solve the problem?
Many thanks,
Sean

If you are running 10.6 (using a 10.6 install disk) then USB hard drives should be visible. I'm getting a little suspicious of this enclosure you are using.
Do you have a different USB hard drive (or firewire would be even better) we can test with to see if it is detected in disk utility when booted to the install disk?
I haven't used SuperDuper but to use disk utility to image / clone / restore a drive from another drive, when one of them is your boot volume, you do so while booted to the install disk. So if the enclosure does not show up in disk utility when boot to the install disk you won't be able to accomplish a clone.
We can still bring your files over, but non-Apple applications would have to be reinstalled from their original source (online, DMGs, install disks, etc.)

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