How to create W7 recovery media from retail Windows 8

I installed retail W8 on my new X230T upon purchase.
Q drive is preserved, however I cannot find a way to create recovery media from it.
Any suggestions?

I'm not sure you can, bitlocker ties your installation to the hardware.
"To P2V a BitLocker drive, please suspend the protection"
REF: http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrad/archive/2012/03/12/upgrading-to-windows-8-consumer-preview-just-got-easier-using-vhd-tools-to-p2v.aspx

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Hi,
welcome to the forum.
Ok, so let's start from the scratch. What you have created while the Win7 was instaled was not an "image" nor a backup of your system. That was just a bootable "Rescue" disc, so that in case you cannot boot up into OS, you can boot from this CD and this will give you some options to save your date, etc.
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