My new WD hard drive is no longer able to boot. How do I fix this?

I got a WD10EALX Cabiar Blue drive last week and copied my existing internal drive that had Tiger OSX on it. It booted fine until I copied an iphoto library from a friend's Mac and now this disk won't boot. I get the circle with the slash through it and the folder with the question mark on it. I ran it through disk utility and it was verified with no problems. What should I do from here?
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB,7200 RPM (WD10EALX) Hard Drive

Well, assuming you mean you repaired permissions in Disk Utility, and that you ONLY copied some data/media files, and didn't go beyond 85% full, I'd say go back to square one on this experiment.
A better approach is to leave or have an "OS only" boot drive, with apps of course, and keep data and media files on another disk drive - the beauty of having four internal hard drives.
By the sounds of it you are using an external drive too. That alone can sometimes be a problem.
As for "verify with Disk Utility" back in Tiger, I give it iffy grade and marks. Repair AND use Disk Warrior.

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