Maxtor 120gig HDD won't Ghost?

I've just purchased a 300gig HDD to replace a full 120gig drive. I want to
use Ghost 9 to copy the 120gig disk to the 300gig disk, but it is not
working.

When the Ghost process starts, nothing happens except that the 120gig drive
"clicks" like it is trying to seek sectors that don't exist. Using Ghost to
"Check" the disk results in the same thing. This happens even when the
120gig drive is alone in the PC.

The drive boots to WinXP Pro without a problem. Drive is formatted as a
single NTFS partition. WinXP's scandisk finds no errors. PC is recent (Intel
875P chipset) so drive size isn't an issue.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

I may be able to do a partition to partition copy, but that won't allow me
to boot from the new drive, will it?

Any thoughts are appreciated.