Dual Boot Windows XP Downgrade Recovery

I purchased a Thinkpad R500 with XP preinstalled. It came complete with recovery CD's, but for Vista.
I would like to create two partitions, one with a minimal/cutdown XP (for audio production) and normal XP partiton for web browsing and working with office software.
From what I have read I should be able to create XP boot CDs in Rescue and Recovery (by pressing the Thinkvantage button). I have R&R 4 installed in German, but there is no option to create a boot CD.
As I do not have recovery disks for XP, or can not create them, how do I accomplish this?

Alphajuno, welcome to the forum,
in order to create recovery discs you need to go to; Start > Programme > ThinkVantage > Create Product Recovery Media.
Hope this helps
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