confusing than helpful. All I initially recommended was a method I've used successfully. You didn't give any details about how you attempted to clone the drive initially. By this I mean we don't know if you put the larger drive in an external enclosure or had another bay in the laptop available. If you tried to clone to an external drive, I can tell you that I've had that to fail. For that reason, I create the image from and restore the image to a drive that's in the machine. For a laptop, I create an image on a separate USB external drive. I then put the new drive in place of the old one and reverse the process. I boot from the cloning software and restore the image from the external device to the drive that's now in the laptop. With what I use, I can alter the partition size if I wish if going to a drive of a different capacity.
I suggested wiping the drive as you said you'd done a format of it after receiving a message that it needed such. This was not going to help you but it's not a fatal error. Wiping the drive would remove partitions and formatting and that's what the cloning software works with best.
There is also another possible variable here. You said your original drive is 80 gb. Does that mean your C: partition shows as 80 gb or are you sure that's the actual capacity of the drive? Laptops will most often have a second (but hidden) partition that contains the files needed to do a full system recovery. If your HD is 80 gb, your C: partition will be smaller than that. But it's possible that your drive is larger than 80 gb if all you are looking at is the C: partition. That could account for the 93 gb you noted in your first post. A 100 gb disk might format to about 93 gb of usable space.
In any event, given the lack of specifics about the drive manufacturer and model #s, no one can be sure what you have. I'm just offering what I've found to work when other methods fail...and that is to use the 2 step process I outlined. It will require the availability of a 3rd drive to create the image. Good luck.