[ThinkPad T420s] In search of recovery media

[WarMachine]

Hello everyone,

I recently bought a superb T420s in which I installed 8 Gb of RAM (more to come quickly), an mSATA Kingston SSD (60 Gb) for the system, and a 500 Gb Hitachi hard drive for the data. With its i5-2520M, its flies and I'm very happy with it. It's my quickest laptop so far, and I've chosen to install a professional version of Windows 7 (I've the key with the machine) as I'm not fond of the more recent versions of Windows. I know a lot of tricks to make the OS blazingly fast. For example, when I cold boot, on the SSD, the boot time is between 11 and 13 seconds ! Wonderful. Very proud of what I've done !
I've read a lot on the Enhanced Experience 2.0, and I've discovered that the T420s is compatible with that. I know that EE 2.0 cannot be downloaded, as it's a modification of the Windows Kernel. I think that if I can use an ISO that includes and the EE modifications and my own modifications, the PC can be even quicker.

But despite the searches I've performed, I don't know how to find the Lenovo recovery media. As I have my own disks on the laptop, I can't access anymore to the partition which contains the image when we press the ThinkVantage key, and the ISOs don't seem to be downloadable on the Internet. Is there a tool I could use to make the DVD(s) myself ? As I've no problem to create my own DVD with the drivers I want, so I think I could use any ISO which includes the EE modifications. Has someone tried to install with a modified Lenovo ISO ?

Thanks a lot for your answers !

W.

[hhhd1]

I tried once to recover a t520 (using a t420 media, which should be fine) on a 64gb ssd, and it failed due to not having enough space, the recovery media appears to take an extra partition on the drive that finishes up all the space for SSDs that are that small.