Would Like To Clone Hard Drive On X40

Hello folks.
I have an X40 with about 15GB allocated to the C and perhaps 5 GB allocated to the recovery partition (these are estimates), WXP Pro SP3. The machine is constantly running out of space.
So I found a replacement 40GB hard drive in Hong Kong. It is a Hitachi Travelstar model HTC426040G9AT00, Lenovo P/N 39T2690.
Now, I could just install this drive and reinstall WXPP from CD. But I am stubborn and don't want to do that. I want to preserve the utility partition. And I want to learn how to clone a drive, as I have never done that before.
I have been trying for weeks to clone the old drive to this new drive. I have been using
Symantec Norton Ghost v2003.775 to do this. Finally it appeared successful and so I went to boot up on the new drive and the OS just hangs in a blank screen.
So I booted to the WXPP SP3 CD and ran a fixmbr and fixboot but that made no difference.
I am out of known options so I ask you folks:
How can I go about cloning both partitions on the original 20GB drive to this replacement 40GB drive?
Thanks so much.

Have a read of my post here regarding cloning a T42. I'm very confident the method will work on your X40.
Hope this helps
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