SSD on Inspiron 1420 crashes

So, i bought a Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB solid state hard drive for my Inspiron 1420 laptop. Mainly did it for fun to see how much it would improve my laptop and speed up Vista.
Replacing the HD was easy. Re-installed Vista and downloaded the 80 or so updates. After loading updates, the laptop crashes and won't start up. So I do it all over again, same result. So now I only load 10 updates at a time, to see if I can narrow down if its a certain update. Hours later, yeah I can see that one of a block of 10 Windows Vista updates are crashing the computer.
Oh well, guess I can't download all of the updates.
Next I discover that whenever the laptop sleeps, it WILL NOT WAKE UP. It looks like its starting to wake up but then freezes with a black screen and I have to hold the power button down for 5 seconds. Not very convenient...
Hours and hours and hours of troubleshooting later (yeah, I tried reloading Vista again), I still can't figure out why the laptop won't wake up from sleep. Hibernate works fine. I've loaded all of the latest drivers. Is there a SATA HD driver that I need to load? If so I don't see one.
So I take out the SSD and put the old regular SATA HD back in and spend a couple hours reloading everything and the laptop works flawless.
I have spent about 12 hours working on this project, and the end result is I have a nice new $120 SSD paperweight on my desk!

 

Try cloning your HDD install directly to the SSD?

 

Wow, that appears to be the answer that fixed my problem. I used the cloning software that came with the SSD. All of the Vista updates are installed without crashing the computer, and the laptop can wake up from sleep now. I feel really stupid for wasting all those hours.
Thanks for the tip!
(But I still don't understand why I had the problems installing Vista on the SSD the normal way.)