Download required for reinstall using the recovery volume?

I'm a bit confused about this new Recovery partition in OSX Lion, From within the recovery partition, can someone please explain why it has to download "additional" content from apple?
Isn't the whole idea behind having the recovery partition is so that it can install the OS back on the main drive without requiring downloadable content? isn't the OS itself saved on this recovery partiton? if not, that seems utterly worthless seeing as how it's estimating 5 hours+
Logically, this makes absolutely no sense, anyone with information on how this recovery partition is even remotely useful, please feel free to reply and give me some info on this.
Thank you...

That seems to be a bogus message.
But yes, the reinstall requires a download; a copy of OSX is not in the Recovery HD (it's only about 650 MB).
See Using the Recovery HD.

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After the check has ended and, if the errors exceed a certain level of seriousness, the Disk Utility application will require you to restart your Mac and use its Mac OS X Install disc counterpart.
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Here are some other minor details that my be important, but I didn't feel they were worth including.
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- My computer is an AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, 512MB RAM with Windows XP Pro SP2 installed. My internal hard drive is partitioned, using the letters C, D and H (C being my system files, D used for recovery files and H for my applications and games). My E drive is used as a DVD/CD-ROM Drive, and drives F and G are reserved for virtual drives (none have been running during this entire ordeal). My external hard drive uses the letter I, and I manually set my iPod to use the letter J (I've never used 'J' for anything else before).
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Solution to "Software required for communicating with the iPod is not installed"!
I battled this same problem for about 5 hours. Going through re-installations, the "5 R's", all these discussion boards. Nothing worked.
The problem is that iPodService was repeatedly crashing after minute or so. You can verify this by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Delete and noting that iPodService is missing from the process list (sort by image name), or by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting "Manage", then going to Services and checking out the IPodService service - if it gives you the option to "Start", then it's not running.
Here is what worked.
1. De-install iTunes and iPod (if you have the updater installed) completely by going to Start --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs. Also delete the C:\Program Files\iTunes and c:\Progam Files\iPod\bin directories. (Don't worry, this doesn't affect your saved music files.)
2. Log in as an Administrator
3. Go into the registry (note this is dangerous - you should be careful) and remove the iPod entries that the uninstaller misses.
3.1 Go to Start menu --> Run.
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3.3 Go to HKEYCLASSESROOT --> IPodService.iPodManager.
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3.6 Now right-click and delete both of these keys.
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4. Other keys I deleted:
4.1 HKEYCLASSESROOT --> IPodManager.IPodManagerUI.1
4.2 HKEYLOCALMACHINE --> SOFTWARE --> Apple Computer Inc. --> iPod
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henry2304 wrote:
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite Model: A135-S4527. My computer has been crashing randomly, and I am looking to re-install the factory image. However, my DVD drive is broken, and thus, I cannot use the recovery disk directly. I tried to buy an external USB DVD drive, but the recovery disk does not seem to be able to work using the external DVD drive, When I try to re-install with the disk in the external DVD drive, it keeps asking me to insert a disk into the internal DVD drive (D, even though the internal drive does not work anymore. Does anyone know if there's any way I can reinstall the factory image with an external DVD drive, or other method? Thanks for the help!
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AMBKK wrote:
The volume Time Machine Backups could not be repaired.
Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Your backups may be hopelessly corrupted, but there's a chance an (expensive) 3rd-party Disk Repair utility might be able to fix them. For the moment, eject and disconnect the TM drive and try to repair the internal.
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While I am trying to update my Muvo slim firmware using the recovery tool it throwd up an error. And from then onwards if I am trying to power it up it won't.
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A computer expert suggested that Windows could have become confused and cannot recognize what space I have spare, this could be because I have run a program called Cyberscrub often. His solution was to reload Windows XP home. My laptop came with recovery disks, everything else already loaded. I have so much I do not want to lose on my laptop. If I use the recovery disks, will I lose everything on my computer, am I best to buy Windows XP home and re-load, in which case will I not lose my work?
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Maybe you can try some Registry cleaner that cleanes out some information which is showing you wrong information that is corrupted by Cyberscrub. Maybe this helps.
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After that, you have to boot with the recovery-cd, by pushing the "c" button at boot time.
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Let me know about the activity of your problem.
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