Can't install because it can't create a recovery disk?

I've been trying to install mountain lion but it keeps saying that it can't be installed because it can't create a recovery partition. I tried to reinstall lion from the recovery disk but it keeps giving me errors and says try reinstalling, but doesn't give the option to download a fresh copy of lion and apple has pulled the lion installer from the mac app store. What do I do?

See "what to do if the installer warns that no Recovery System can be created" in About OS X Recovery.

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