New drive won't boot

Hi and thanks in advance,
I've installed a seagate 320 g drive in my T60. I used a usb 2.0 to serial ATA cable to clone my original 100 g Hitachi drive after booting off a cd in the ultradrive bay. Before cloning, I disabled IBM Predesktop Area in the bios setup. After the clone finished, I reset the Predesktop Area to normal and then tried to boot from the new Seagate. The system hangs up with a completely blank screen, cursor blinking in the upper left corner, after the Lenovo spash and before windows.
I updated the system bios about two months ago.
I don't know whether having this driver: system32\drivers\Shockprf.sys installed may create incombatability nor how to uninstall Shockprf.sys to test this.
I am not sure what to try next.
Neil
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When you image with Ghost you need to use the -ib switch in both directions in order that you capture the four boot sectors. Have a look at this thread and this one, hopefully they will provide the needed information.
The setup with the drives where they were is correct.
Hope this helps
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