The SRP, System Reserved Partition, contains the booting files and is the Active partition. The booting files are BOOTMGR and the BOOT folder which contains the BCD Store. You need to copy the SRP that is on Disk 0 to the SSD.
Ignore my section on motherboard. When the copy has completed, shutdown and remove the old drive from your laptop. The old drive MUST NOT be in the laptop for the first boot from the SSD. After the old HD has been removed, boot the SSD. It should boot from its current position but you might have to put it in the old HDs slot.
We see a lot of people who boot the new drive with the old HD still installed. Win7 boots and all looks OK but the OS never loads completely and stalls on a dull grey, blue screen. It's a drive letter issue.
After Win7 has successfully loaded and you find it is working properly you can re-install the old HD. You can then delete the old OS.
ok makes sense... the other thing puzzling me is drive letters... with the old drive out will i be bootong from F: drive ie the ssd or do I then rename it to C:... but would this conflict when tge HD goes back in?
The booted OS assigns the drive letters. So when old Win7 is the booted OS it is C: drive and any other visible OS is some other drive letter.
When new Win7 is the booted OS it is C: drive and any other visible OS is some other drive letter. Don't worry about drive letters if you do everything properly.
Install the old HD. Check Disk Management. The first 2 partitions will have any drive letters but won't be C:
Be careful that the laptop is not booting from the old HD. I don't understand your BIOS but if the C: drive is on the SSD you are OK to delete the first 2 partitions on the old HD and create a single NTFS partition in the unallocated space.
Win7 sometimes reverses the drives in Disk Management but it doesn't matter. Delete D: and F: and get back to us. Don't create a new partition yet. If there is a problem remove the old HD and maybe put the SSD in the other slot. But it should be OK.