T420s SSD max capacity?

Hi,
I bought a Crucial M4 256GB SSD and tried to upgrade the 128GB SSD on my Lenovo T420s laptop.
I basically did the following steps: 1) cloned my old drive over, 2) increased the primary parition to about 220GB, 3) put in new SSD and perform Startup Repair. However, Windows never boots up, but I instead get a black screen with a blinking cursor.
After reading about the cause of this, one possible cause is that there could be a capacity limit for the SSD (e.g. 160 GB). Is this true? If so, is there some firmware update workaround? I read through the manuals but couldn't find any indication of this.
Thanks for any help!

There should be no problem using a 256GB Crucial M4 in a T420s. (I have one in a T430s.)
It's possible that there was a problem with cloning. The best way to do it is to put the new drive in the T420s HDD bay and your current 128GB SSD in a USB external enclosure.
Boot from the old drive. You may have to override the default boot sequence at startup. Then run the clone software.
When you're done, disconnect the USB-attached drive and reboot. If you didn't change the primary partition size during the cloning you can do it now using Windows 7/8 Disk Management.
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