Windows drive no longer available at power up with Option key?

I've done a byte to byte copy of a separate disk drive (320GB) that was my Vista x64 bootcamp drive. (In a MacPro) to a new 750GB drive. After I completed the copy process, I pulled out the 320GB drive and put in the 750GB drive. I hold down the "Option" key during power on and expected to see both my Mac drive and my Windows drive boot option. Unfortunately I only see the Mac now.
If I go into OSX I can see my Bootcamp drive on my desktop (Untitled), can open it and see that all my windows files are there. So what am I missing to get my bootcamp drive to show up during the power on Option process?
Thanks, Rob.

RAID is destination for dmg image file.
But tried it again using a single Mac HD boot drive just to eliminate that possibility. Got the same error:
====Cloning NTFS filesystem to compressed dmg=======
hdiutil create -puppetstrings -srcdevice "/dev/disk1s1" "/Users/robainscough/Documents/Untitled.winclone/Windows" 1>&2
PERCENT:0.000000
MESSAGE:Preparing imaging engine…
diskimages-helper(424,0x100781000) malloc: * error for object 0x1021108d0: pointer being freed was not allocated
* set a breakpoint in mallocerrorbreak to debug
hdiutil: create failed - No child processes
return value of hdiutil create -puppetstrings -srcdevice "/dev/disk1s1" "/Users/robainscough/Documents/Untitled.winclone/Windows" 1>&2 is 256
hdiutil create -puppetstrings -srcdevice "/dev/disk1s1" "/Users/robainscough/Documents/Untitled.winclone/Windows" 1>&2 did not complete successfully
cleaning up: Mounting Disk
Volume (null) on /dev/disk1s1 mounted
Sun Jan 3 15:03:14 PST 2010
Since WinClone is freeware, I really wasn't expecting much. Does anyone know of any other tools that will get the job done?
Thanks, Rob.

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