Good. Now hang onto that Ubuntu LiveCD -- we can use it to diagnose things further if something mysterious happens to the clone again.
Cheers
Okay. Now I'm getting the flashing cursor again. Any other ideas on ways to fix this?
Edit: I seem to have found the problem. I feel stupid for not trying this earlier, but it turns out Dell has updated the Bios 3 times since I got this machine. Connecting the old drive so I could run the bios updater and then rebooting with the new drive worked! So if anyone else runs into this, make sure you have the current bios.
Many thanks!
Stu