What an adventure!!
I'm posting this in the hopes of preventing someone, somewhere some grief if they use a similar approach to setting up a new HDD.
I just purchased a new, larger (Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm HDD,320 GB) to replace the 200 GB Momentus 7200 rpm drive I've been using for awhile...
acer notebook
backup
bootloader
disk partitioning
drivers
easybcd
fat32
grub
hdd
installation
linux
migration
ntfs
partimage
repair
seagate
storage
ubuntu
windows 7
windows xp