You might try the cloning using other software as mentioned by other posters, such as Ghost or one of the many free Linux utilities available for the task. If you're sure the drive is being recognized, meaning the BIOS reports a drive being attached, AND reports it as being the proper size, then I would try to use Acronis to create a bit-for-bit image of the old drive, this is an option that is off by default in Acronis, and would be selected sometime during the clone wizard setup. What error do you get when you try to boot to the new, cloned drive? Is there a chance that there is a BIOS update available for the old machine? Often a BIOS update will include support for newer, larger drives. Is the old machine a stand-alone computer, or some other piece of equipment, that uses a computer to run it? Does the BIOS in the old machine recognize the new drive? If you can't get past that hurdle, you won't get anywhere. The ideal situation would be to use the old machine to accomplish the cloning, and clone to an identical drive (same manufacturer and size), which is probably not possible, but if at all doable, that's the way to go. Are the drives the same size (storage size, not physical)? I would imagine your new one might be larger, because they probably don't make the size of the old one anymore.
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