Problem putting C2D hard drive in i7 MBP?

I have a MBP C2D with a 7200rpm 500GB hard drive. I just got my new i7 MBP, opened it up and put in my old hard drive (10.6.3). When I boot, the apple appears on the screen and then nothing else. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there any workaround, other than using Migration Assistant?

Did you damage something performing the swap? All MacBook & MacBook Pros use 2.5" SATA drives and have for many years (You'd have to back a long way to get to the models that used parallel ATA.)
The only concerns about drive swapping are things like heat & differences in power consumption -- but the drive would at least "work" even if not a recommended drive.
Turn off the Mac. Press and hold down the "option" key while powering it up and keep holding it until you see one or more icons allowing you to select the boot device. You might need to reset the boot device via "System Preferences" -> "Startup Disk" -> pick the disk you want to use.
If that doesn't work, insert the install DVD that came with the new Mac and boot the Mac will holding down the letter 'C' on the keyboard (boot from CD/DVD). Once the system boots, pick your language, then use the menubar at the top to select "Disk Utility" -- check to see if Disk Utility can see the internal hard drive and/or reports any problems with it.
I personally would have just opted to use the "Migration Assistant". Put a firewire 800 cable between the two macs OR an ethernet cable between the two macs. It'll take a few hours to do the copy, but this way you're running the new machine with all original components under warranty.
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