is it possible to create a new restore partition on a T61?

[motero99]

My daughter will be a college freshman inthe fall. We are looking at a T61. Here school has told Lenovo to create the discounted offerings in Win XP only. I am thinking about getting the XP box and then upgrading to Vista. One of the nice things about the Thinkpad is the restore partition to factory specs with the ThinkVantage button if she hoses things. Is it possible to create a new restore partion if I install Vista? If so, can someone point me to instructions as to how to do this. I can see an advantage if this is possible as it would be cool to create a restore partition after Office and the basic software stack is installed.