Hi Joe,
I'm sorry, but I can't see how this can help. You suggest to put the SSD inside the notebook and install Windows 7 on it, but then how can I test the data migration? Actually, I can't do this as I have no win7 recovery CD yet.
I also received an answer from "Freddy Intel" and I can confirm that yes it seems that several partition exist on the disk: an NTFS (Boot, Page File, Primary Partition) and 3 non NTFS partition: Recovery Partition, Hibernation Partition, and a third 12.5 GB partition (I guess this is some kind of recovery partition as well).