Windows 7 won't recognize my new partition, calls it free space

That's nowhere near the threshold I was hoping. Have you considered the clone process failed, and would you be willing to do it over again? This would involve reformatting the bad partition and re-cloning. Use a verification option if possible?

Use the Partition Bootable CD (always do things like this bare metal). I don't know if this program lets you do it from within Windows, but it really should not if it does. These types of techniques can be highly faulty, especially when we are talking about moving live system files. Unfortunately, manipulating shadow copy has become the cool thing amongst live cloning software. I don't know if Partition Wizard does this, though.

So here are my suggestions:

• Make sure you use the Bootable CD option.
• Reformat the failed cloned partition and clean it out. Format it as RAW if you can.
• Get rid of the entire partition, and after doing this, cold boot the system. (Shutdown the system after the partition is deleted).
• Recreate the partition, and once that is done, once again cold boot the system. (Shutdown the system after the partition is created).
• Start the clone process again, and use a verification option if you can.

If all else fails, try CloneZilla. I do not hesitate to use Paragon Backup & Recovery Suite 10, as the bootable CD is completely masterful. It uses the Windows Vista PE environment, as opposed to Acronis, and this is a personal preference of mine. I have documented in a YouTube video of how to do a bare metal backup and restore with this software, and it also allows for cloning.

In all instances of these operations, I never perform any type of operation like this with Windows actually running, and suggest that you do the same. The chance for error becomes more and more prominent as you do more and more backups or clones. I believe the exception to this is with the Windows Server 2008 Backup server role, but that's going off-topic.