Trying to clone HP laptop (Ghost 15 and Vista Home)

Not sure where to begin...but here it goes. I just recently bought a new 256 Samsung 830 and want to use that in my HP laptop. The current drive in the laptop is 320GB (C:/285.79 GB, D:/ 12.29 GB). I've tried to create a system recovery disk from HP via the Vista Home Premium OS, but failed on burning the disks so I ordered some from HP. Those don't work at installing either as it just hangs and after 8 hours spits out an error message (don't remember exactly what it was). Next up was the USB flash drive approach, which was a total bust so it brought me here. I can install a fresh copy of Vista, but lose all the drivers, applications and personalization that I've accumulated over the past 3-4 years

 

I've tried to do the disk to disk copy and didn't work (multiple errors) so I guess my only option is to do the image/restore. I've been scouring these forums and found this article which I've tried to do a few times and no avail.

 

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/using-norton-ghost-15-to-restore-to-a-new-hard-drive/td-p/510308/page/7

 

I'm hoping some of the guys that helped out that gentleman can do the same for me. The ultimate goal is to clone both the C and D partitions to the new SSD so that it looks like nothing has changed. I've taken a screenshot of what the current drive config looks like on the laptop. Hoping you guys can help me out!

 

Thanks in advance