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Since this is a brand new system I don't have a need to restore. But when you do restore from the recovery media you create does it also create the recovery partition?

yips .. if you the Lenovo Recovery Dvds ...
or you can COPY ( image ) the recovery partition now
and when you need to restory - copy that to HD
and reboot and hit F1 ....

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ausmike wrote:yips .. if you the Lenovo Recovery Dvds ...
or you can COPY ( image ) the recovery partition now
and when you need to restory - copy that to HD
and reboot and hit F1 ....

Cheers

That will not work, I've tried. But the recovery disk set will restore the OS and recovery partitions to factory. You will also be able to burn another recovery disc set after doing a restore.

QuackXP wrote:Since this is a brand new system I don't have a need to restore. But when you do restore from the recovery media you create does it also create the recovery partition?

I don't know how it will be for a T420, but if i have understood what i read about creating recovery media correctly, restoring from recovery media which you have created yourself, will not create a recovery partition on the hard drive.

It created a recovery partition for me when I reimaged with the recovery disks for my W520.

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