Can't boot after clone, even with original C drive only

I have True Image 2011 with windows 7, with four hard drives: 80GB SSD as C, on SATA 1, 2TB HD as D on SATA 2, 2TB HD as E on SATA 3, and 2TB HD as F on SATA 4.

I disconnected F and attached a new 500GB HD, assigned it as M, then cloned C to M.

Now the computer will not boot, even with only the 80GB SSD attached to SATA 1.

Booting True Image from the CD, I can see that the SSD is now showing up as two different partitions, a small one, reserved, with boot data, and a large partition with all the files and folders that showed up originally on C,

If I select windows from the booted True Image CD, windows will come up, although it is not happy the drive for paging is not available, etc.

My plan is to
(1) restore C, SSD, to bootable condition, be able to boot windows directly from C
(2) backup C to F with true image booted CD
(3) remove C SSD and install M 500 GB on SATA 1
(4) boot True Image from CD and restore C image on F to old M 500 GB, to be new C

Does this sound like a valid plan, and PLEASE help with advice how to accomplish step 1.