Create Win 8 recovery media in ThinkPad/Thinkcentre/ThinkStation

QuestionMy machine comes preloaded with Windows 8. Unlike Windows 7, Lenovo Think products do not have options to create recovery media in Windows 8 via Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools.
Thus, is there any way to create recovery disc or media for just in case anything happens to my system and i need to recover back the system to factory default state?
AnswerBelow are the instructions for creating the Lenovo Microsoft Windows 8 preload Recovery Media for Lenovo Think branded systems.  A minimum 16GB USB flash drive is required to make a complete backup.
Open Recovery applet by pressing the Microsoft Windows key and X.  Select "Control Panel" from the menu and then select "Recovery" from the Control Panel pane as shown below. 
Select "Advanced recovery tools" and then select "Create a recovery drive" as shown below.
Click "Yes" at the User Account Control prompt (if prompted
Make sure that "Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive." is checked as shown below.
Select the appropriate USB Flash Drive.
The selected drive will be reformatted during the recovery creation process as shown below.
USB format and file copy will begin.  This process may take up to hour and will display as shown below.
Once the Recovery Media creation has completed, there is the option to delete the recovery partition.  On most systems, this partition is about 10G in size.  Lenovo strongly recommends that this recovery partition remain intact as shown below.
Recovery Media Process is complete and Control Panel can be closed.

Does anyone have further information on this issue? I have a T440S obtained in April. I did not immediately create a recovery drive, nor did I delete anything. But now when I try to create recovery media I receive the same messages mentioned above (the option to "Copy the recovery partition from the PC to the recovery drive" is not enabled so I cannot check it; if I click next I get the message that I cannot create a recovery drive..."Some required files are missing". I called Lenovo tech support about this and they said they would send me a CD with Windows 8 recovery media on it. That doesn't entirely help, since my system came preloaded with Windows 8.1 Pro. (Also the system doesn't have an optical drive, tho that is solvable with an external drive). The tech support person said I could use the recovery media to reinstall Windows 8, then upgrade to windows 8.1 and then reinstall all of my apps, which isn't really what I was looking for unless I had a total failure, which I don't. I would however like to be able to repair windows locally if needed. Has anyone been successful at creating a recovery drive with windows pro 8.1?

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