Failing Hard drive and replacing it with SSD

Hi,
I have a HP Pavilion p6-2302ea desktop. Last week I was getting a blue screen saything that my pc had encountered a problem and would then fail to boot up. On running the diagnostic through the BIOS I was given the error that 'Hard Disk Short DST test failed'.
Looking this up it appeared that the hard drive is about to fail. I did manage to get the pc booted up by running an attempted repair but this is only succesful for a few attempts and then the problem starts again.
I have purchased a Kingston Fury SSD drive and installed it and it can be seen in the BIOS but I have 2 problems.
1. It is not seen in Windows
2. Using the Acronis software that cam with the drive I am unable to clone the old drive as it says the current hard drive is corrupt.
Is there a way to do a new install from the recovery partition and put it onto the new drive? Any help would be appreciated.
AndyMcG

Yes, here are the options:
1. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c03489643
2. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03546603
if not:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=bph07143
Wish you luck,
Karthik
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