(1) As mentioned by both posts above - disconnect your HDD, connect your SSD.
(2) Install Windows 7 on SSd and Install all drivers.
(3) Everything looks good - reconnect your HDD - DO NOT delete your vista32 at this time, As you can daul boot to win7 and Vista32 by using the hot key during post (F12 on my gigabyte P55 MB (Note this does not change boot priority in BIOS).
(4) Windows 7 has an excellent Back up utility that will create a image of your "C" drive and that little 100 MB system volume. This is under windows 7 control panel - point to your HDD for where to place this image. Note: you do not need to create the restore disk as you can use the Win 7 installation disk to restore the win 7 IF things go bad (Murphy's law - Do it and not need it, don't do it and regret it - LOL)
- Recommend you read up on SSD tweaks and decide which you what to use.
(a) - I recommend you mange your swap file, set min/max to same value. Your choice on location. Set to HDD to minimize writes to SSD: set to SSD for performance.
(b) disable Hibernation - easy to do.
(c) move temp file to HDD. Not much performance lose, but decrease writes.
(d) move user ( as techmo34 stated ) or just move "My doc/video/ect" to HDD
(5) Install programs - Note depending on the size of your SSD you may install all programs to the SSD (Normally the default), or just the ones you use frequently and the remainder change the install to path to the HDD - Not sure, use google.
(6) Everthing still great - Redo that image backup of your SSD (can delete old back-up).
(7) Leave your Vista32 on HDD for at least a Month - Although it is a small percentage, some SSDs go bellyup in a short time frame, Yea, Murphy's law again.
(8) at some point you can back up all your files and data from the HDD and reformat it.
Note: if you have the HDD set up with two partitions (1st one for system/programs(old C) and a 2nd one (Old D) for All your files and data - EASY, just reformat your OLD "C" drive.