Seagate 500GB SATA

I purchased a new Seagate internal drive for my T60p to be used either as the boot drive or as the bay drive for data.  However, I can not get the machine to fully acknowledge it.  It will show in the boot list, but it will not boot or appear as an available drive. 
I have updated the SATA AHCI Controller driver, but haven't been able to find an update to the UltraBay ATA Storage Controller.
If I boot my XP Prof OS from the Bay Drive using the original 100GB drive, and have the new drive in the Drive 0 location, I can at least see it via the Computer Manager.  I was even able to format it, but it not accessible.
This new drive has a 3GB transfer rate, and I have tried the jumper setting to reduce it back to a 1.5 GB rate.  No luck.
Is this related to a 137GB limitation on the drive size?  If so, my Seagate 500GB USB drive works fine, but that may be the difference between USB and an internal drive.
Any help would be appreciated.

After lots of trial and error getting my ThinkPad hard drive upgraded, I was able to clone it without reloading Windows. The solution for cloning to this drive from the original is as follows:
Update the bios to the latest version.
Apply the firmware upgrade to the hard drive as needed. The firmware upgrade is in the downloads section of Lenovo's site.
If running XP, make sure it's SP3.
Unplug the power, remove the battery, then remove the old drive.
Install the new, empty drive, put the battery back in, and plug in the power.
Connect the old drive to the USB port.
Boot the computer using a bootable cloning software disk. I used the bootable version of Seagate Tools since I had a Seagate drive. Easeus Partition Master should work fine as well.
Proceed with cloning from the USB attached drive to the new drive, keeping the original partition sizes the same.
After the process completes, the machine will boot from the new drive. Use Easeus Partition Master to move the sevice partition to the end of the drive, and give the unallocated free space to the C: drive. Once that is done, you have your new drive with lots of free space.
I hope this post helps someone get spared from a lot of grief in trying to upgrade their drive...this procedure is far from what it takes on just about any computer, but it's the only successful way to clone the drive into something that's bootable on the ThinkPad. The only other option is a new install of Windows, then transfer in your data.
-X1

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