Serious Issues with T61!!!!

i just bought my t61 , it has a number of issues...
1- the hard disk is always been accessed by some pre installed software. so when its on battery, this thing eats up all of my battery charge.
2- i have a 7200 rpm 160gb hdd.. but it only shows 149.5 gb space in which about  7 gb is allocated to healthy EISA configuration.
3- there is always a problem of my softwares generating an error, thus making my explorer unstable and the windows starts to get slow and generate continuous errors. VISTA HOME PREMIUM.
4- thi finishing is not like the old ibm thinkpad i had. I SERIES
5- speakers suck.
6- the display isnt a much of an improvement.
7- the system occasionally gets really slow.
i hope i dont get any other problem. ANY ONE WITH A SOLUTION OR IDEA ABOUT ANY OF THE PROBLEM, PLEASE DO LET ME KNOW. THANKS
mFn

When you ran the XP recovery discs they erased the Vista recovery partition and installed the XP recovery partition. Then it installed XP from the restore partition. Vista is gone.
You should have made a set of Vista recovery discs before doing anything else. Too late now.
You could have  reinstalled Vista by pressing the blue button at startup and restoring to factory condition. Again, too late now.
The XP downgrade discs you have are not very clearly marked but none the less marked XPPSP2, not Vista.
Call Lenovo and tell them and have them send you some Vista discs.
T60 2623-D7U, 3 GB Ram. Dual boot XP and Linux Mint.
T400 2765-T7U Windows 7
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