RnR Recovery - M57 Vista to 500Gb SATA

Hi everyone,
I came across "funny" issue...
My M57 (6069-CTO) was running well WinXP. Recently I replaced original 250Gb disk with 500Gb (WD5003AZEX) disk.
I tried to recover my Vista Business SP1 32bit, using original DVD Recovery set. It recovers "service partition" well, then boots up, reaches green/blue background on desktop saying "Please wait while Windows continues setting up your computer". This runs for several minutes and fails with:
"Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware" After reboot, the following message pops up:
Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation".
So far I have tried to set BIOS to default settings (BIOS latest from Lenovo web site), changed SATA/AHCI to IDE (Compatibility), same problems all the time...Tried even to jumper 500Gb disk to run with 3.0Gbps...no luck
At the same time, I manage to install same set to 160Gb 2.5" drive I have spare without any problems, with SATA/AHCI enabled in the BIOS...
When doing Image of 160Gb disk and restoring it to 500Gb, Vista boots up OK and works fine (apart from several cosmetic issues which are minor).
Any idea how to make installation working ?
Thanks in advance

You have found a workaround by cloning 250GB to the 500GB..
Per the following link, your WDC is advanced format:
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771434.pdf
This "IA" is a typo from the microsoft link.. it should have said advanced format. The microsoft link is:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2466753
AF would require intel chipset driver 9.6 or higher. You have found what does work during install on the 500 GB, ie a win 7 lenovo install ( newer, might have the correct intel driver). What does not work is the Vista Lenovo install (older, might not have the driver). The driver might not even be the problem.
Typical workaround:
(1) Bios, Change Raid to AHCI or IDE
(2) During install, click the load driver button (with the intel driver you copied to a CD). (DID YOU DO THIS?)
This 2 items seem to not have helped.
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If you really want to spend the time, read the above microsoft article and run this test:
(1) create a win 7 repair CD
(2) Start the Lenovo vista standalone install until it fails
(3) Boot to the repair CD and get a command prompt
(4)Locate the C:\Panther folder and check the error logs with notepad. Is \Panther used in vista install?
(-or- take the 500GB drive and install as a secondary HDD on another machine and browse the C drive).
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I would:
(1) Burn the intel driver to a CD
(2) Run Lenovo vista install
(3) Click load driver button, with intel driver in the CD drive.
(4) Take your choice of BIOS settings. I would start with Raid, then AHCI, then IDE. I really believe this should fix your problem, but I might be wrong.
(5)Keep the win7 repair CD available if you want to go xxx.log hunting on the C drive.

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