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Hi. I am new here. I am just building T60 hybrid and have 2 problems;
1. I bought 320GB WD Scorpio Black (to put it in caddy) and not only my T60 but my heavy dining table was vibrating like crazy. Computer shop tested the other one, brand new-same story. I am done with WD. They sold me Win7 for super bargain price instead...
2. During my attempts to clone old hdd on my new SSD (I used Acronis True Image), Acronis made some "hidden" partition on SSD, round 3.8GB. Today I decided to buy Windows7 and I want perfectly clean SSD with one partition to install it...Win7 installer will not let me delete this hidden partition. I also tried compmgmt.mse and Command Prompt-no success
How can I get rid of that partition (its FAT32) ?

Have you tried Gparted?

Use either Killdisk or DBAN to wipe your whole HD.
Both free on the web.
What you want to delete is the Recovery partition from the original IBM install.

Thank you. So far I have installed Win7 on SSD, that "recovery partition" is still there but I still have 15GB free on that SSD and I inted to use it for software only. All other data will be sitting on 250GB HDD, unless I find 320GB or 500GB HDD that is very very quiet (forget WD Scorpio Black, brrrrr).
My Win7 starts in about 18-19 seconds and shuts down in 8 seconds - is that good ?
BTW: maybe somebody knows how to switch "RAM testing" off on Windows 7 ? I remember I used that on one of my desktops, years ago and that greatly improved speed of starting Windows XP...hope that should be similar on Win7 ?
Thanks again

RAM testing is done in the BIOS.
Look for something like Quick POST settings.