>fdisk /dev/hda
Then it went through my mind that the drive was not formatted, so I proceeded to format the new HD with the end result of
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS
The above was then written to the disk using "w"
After doing all of this the disk refuses to mount (I used >mount /dev/hda and >mount /dev/hda1 with no success.) Rebooting in linux did not fix this.
So I am stuck, I cannot copy my backup of the original HD onto the new drive because it will not mount.