Creating a recovery drive for a K430 computer

Hello-I have a K430 desktop computer with a1TB HDD,12 GB Memory and Win8 64 bits. I used a !TB Seagate USB Drive for C drive backup and a 2GB Flash drive for Personal Document backup. I created a HDD image backup and a backup of my personal documents using the Lenovo procedure.. I understand that I need either a WIN8 disk or Recovery drive to boot and re-install my image file.
I am having problems creating a Recovery Drive. I formatted the drive to NTFS and verified that the Flash Drive was recognized by my computer. I searched for Recovery Drive.exe and it appeared. However, my flash drive did not appear on the Recovery window and the Next button remained greyed out. I will check and see if I have a recovery partition.Have you developed a fix for this problem? If so, please let me know. Thanks.
Carl W Lesesne

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Hello-I obtained a copy of Microsoft's Windows Create a USB recovery drive and discovered that I do not have a recovery partition. After entering recimg/showcurrent in a command prompt, I received a message stating that there is no active custom recovery image.
I attempted to create a recovery partition by entering mkdir C:\RefreshImage and recimg-Create C:\RefreshImage after the Command Prompt. This resulted in the following error message: recimg-createIMage is not recognized as an internal or external command. I have reported this problem to Microsoft also. If you are aware of a fix for this problem, please let me know. Thanks.
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You can order a replacement set of Recovery Discs using the link below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00810334&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
If you have any problem with this link, order them directly from HP.
If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
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