Creation of Windows 8 OS CD/Media - Lenovo Lynx K 3011

I have recently bought Lenovo Lynx ideaPad K3011 and got Windows 8 pre-installed. I can see the windows 8 license/product Id through My Computer --> Properties.
1. Since there is no Windows 8 OS CD provided by Lenovo with this tablet, is there a way that I can create a Windows 8 OS Recovery on CD or a Pen/Flash drive media?
2. If OS crashes, how do we boot it and restore/reinstall the OS? (For desktops/laptops, generally we used to do this through Bootable CD/DVD, etc.
Thanks in advance
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hi trnra,
Welcome to the Forums.
Regarding your questions:
1. If you have the IdeaTab Lynx with the dock, you can follow this guide to create a recovery drive and use it to recovery Windows from a crash.
If you don't have the dock, you may try the following (I haven't tested this method yet since there's no available USB OTG cable here in the lab)
- enable USB OTG under BIOS
   To access the BIOS:
   - navigate to the UEFI firmware settings or
    - press Power button > Volume Up > Voume Down (in this sequence) when the unit is Off
Alter
- use a USB OTG cable and a flashdrive and follow this guide to create a recovery drive
2. If the OS doesn't start, you may enter Push Button Reset Mode (see this thread).
   - I haven't tested booting from the OTG cable with the recovery drive created in step 1 yet but you can try it by altering boot to USB HDD under BIOS.
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