T23 replacement hard drive wont boot

I recently had my original 30GB ATA/100 hard drive for my Thinkpad t23 fail. I purchased a new 120GB ATA/100 drive that was supposed to work specifically with the T23. Once installed, I can see it in the BIOS, I can partition using FDISK, Windows XP DOS portion of setup completes up to first reboot, and I can see the drive and/or copy files. However, regardless of using XP or DOS with an active and bootable system installed the system simply will not boot from the hard drive. I get a flashing dash in the top left hand corner of the screen. I have of course applied the latest system and controller ROM.
Any ideas???

gxlord, welcome to the forum,
did you attach the metal tray, caddy, which was attached to your original drive to the new drive? Sounds stupid, but it's important.
Hope this helps
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