HP's with Vista on all let you make a set of recovery DVD's, so either make them, put the SSD in blank and run them. Or clone the recovery partition from the old drive to the SSD with Acronis, then run the recovery from the SSD.
The recovery DVD's are the best option, although if you're still running a machine that came with Vista I'd save your money to put toward a new one. Just run the recovery on it as-is, you'll probably find it'll be loads quicker once you've removed all the preinstalled nonsense HP like to install!
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