Unable to install ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery on new X220t

I recieved me new X220t a few days ago and when trying to install Rescue and Recovery from the ThinkVantage Toolbox I'm greeted with a message stating there's not enough free space to install or upgrade the Rescue and Recovery environment.   Space can't be an issue as I'm running nothing but Windows 7 64bit Professional and Office 2010.   
I could go the 3rd party route with Acronis but I'd rather use what came with my system and save some money. 

It's an 80GB Intel SSD.  Here is the copy/past from msinfo32.
Description    Disk drive
Manufacturer    (Standard disk drives)
Model    INTEL SSDSA2CW080G3
Bytes/Sector    512
Media Loaded    Yes
Media Type    Fixed hard disk
Partitions    3
SCSI Bus    0
SCSI Logical Unit    0
SCSI Port    0
SCSI Target ID    0
Sectors/Track    63
Size    74.53 GB (80,023,749,120 bytes)
Total Cylinders    9,729
Total Sectors    156,296,385
Total Tracks    2,480,895
Tracks/Cylinder    255
Partition    Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size    342.00 MB (358,612,992 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset    1,048,576 bytes
Partition    Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size    64.93 GB (69,717,721,088 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset    359,661,568 bytes
Partition    Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size    9.27 GB (9,948,889,088 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset    70,077,382,656 bytes
You're right about using the Win7 backup.   It will suit me just fine but I was curious as to why R&R was giving me trouble about not wanting to install.  

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