Need help installing 3 new ssd's on 2 computers and a laptop

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So at the moment I have:

1. a laptop with a normal harddrive and windows 7 home 64bit2.
2. a desktop with a normal harddrive and windows 7 home 64 bit
3. another desktop with windows vista 64bit.

The laptop and second desktop came with windows preinstalled while the first desktop I install windows 7 home with an oem disk.

So I wish to add a SSD to each of the desktops and replace the harddrive in the laptop with an SSD and put the old laptop harddrive into the first desktop as extra memory. I want to do a fresh install of windows on all the computers but keep all the data (pictures, documents, games, etc.) on the old harddrives and use them as extra space while the ssd has the os and major games and programs like sony vegas and photoshop. The laptop harddrive I would move all of that data to an external harddrive. The second desktop I want to go to windows 7 from vista. The others I'm okay with windows 7 or 8. So how would I go about doing all this the best way?

Thank you!
 
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drtweak
Well for the ones you don't have an install disk for they should have a recovery partition is they are OEM computers (Dell Hp ECT). You can just clone the whole drive over, then remove old drive, boot into recovery, and do a factory restore.

As for the vista machine and upgrading to windows 7 you will just have to buy windows 7 and install it fresh on the new SSD.

Just make sure that once you have windows installed on the SSD's that you set those to the primary boot drives and not the old disk drives. I'd then wipe the old drives when you are good, and move your cloned data from the SSD to the HDD.
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Well for the ones you don't have an install disk for they should have a recovery partition is they are OEM computers (Dell Hp ECT). You can just clone the whole drive over, then remove old drive, boot into recovery, and do a factory restore.

As for the vista machine and upgrading to windows 7 you will just have to buy windows 7 and install it fresh on the new SSD.

Just make sure that once you have windows installed on the SSD's that you set those to the primary boot drives and not the old disk drives. I'd then wipe the old drives when you are good, and move your cloned data from the SSD to the HDD.
 
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If I do a fresh install of windows 7 on the ssd going into the vista machine, will I still have all the data on the hard drive and can just leave it as is or do I put all that stuff on an external harddrive, format the hard drive, then put what I need back?
 
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In all your cases Whether you clone or do a fresh install to the SSD's, on the old hard drives once you don't need to boot to them anymore (maybe for accessing come programs and checking out licensing ect to move all that over) I would back up your data, and wipe the drive, then put your data back on. No point of it having it take up space or anything unless you wish to keep it in there as a dual boot and just select the old hard drive when you want to boot into your old vista machine.
 
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