New HD (all of a sudden) starts bricking my T61

Quick summary: I have two sata drives: one works fine, but if i put the other in and hit the power button, the 'battery' and 'plugged in' lights go out. No BIOS, nothing.
More detailed explanation: I have a the original 60gb 7200rpm sata drive that came with my T61. It's full, so i bought a 500gb 7200rpm sata drive. I installed the new drive, the computer booted fine, I partitioned it and installed ubuntu and vmware, then i put the old drive back in so that i could grab a vmware image from it. Did that, put the new drive back in, hit the power button and BAM.....nothing happened.
-New Drive: (booted ok once but now) The battery and power lights will go on, but once i hit the power button they go out and dont go back on until I remove the battery and put it back in.
-Old Drive: Boots absolutely fine.
-No Drive: BIOS comes up, everything looks good.
Is there anyone here who can tell me how my computer knows the difference without even going to the BIOS? Is it a power issue? If so then why did it boot once? Please help, i'm slightly frustrated.
Edit: This is a problem with the drive. It does EXACTLY the same thing to a newer thinkpad. I'm still looking for an answer: I'll probably send the drive back but before I do I'd like to understand the problem and make sure that I can't fix it myself...time is money.

lead_org makes an excellent point. If you don't use the correct caddy you can lose your machine and the hard drive. Electrical shorts are created between the walls of the drive space and the drive.
Even if the pins match exactly, you could have this problem and others if you're not using the right caddy!

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