Pull the drive from the laptop. Boot it up and go into the BIOS. View the drive
info and make sure it doesn't see any drives. Save the BIOS settings. Put the
new drive in and see if the BIOS will recognize it. If it does, save the
settings and see if you can boot with it. If it doesn't, put the drive as a
secondary device on another system, and use something like Partition Magic to
blow away every partition that it sees. Put it back in the laptop and see what
happens.
From the sound of it, either the BIOS itself doesn't like the drive, or the
drive has a hidden partition that's causing something to choke. Either way ....
Monte
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