'F11 key not working for reimaging hard drive on X201

Hello to all,
I I am having an issue with F11 key when booting up to engage in a recovery of factory partition of Windows 7 as it was shipped from factory, or as Lenovo calls it, Q drive. It is basically an image of Windows for reinstalling as was.
For some reason unknown to me, it will not work. I get no response. Can anyone suggest a way to either get my F11 key to bring up the desired screens for a new image procedure, or any workarounds to this? I cannot access this through ThinkVantage either, which is a Lenovo help program. I have not reinstalled any new OS, nor have I reinstalled any previous versions of images of same OS. I have the x64 version.
I guess I could contact Lenovo and buy a new set of disks to do this, but it is too much money right now without trying something first.
I really need to reimage my laptop, as my Windows 7 pro has some serious issues that only a new installation (or new image in this case) will solve. Any and all answers will be greatly appreciated, and yes, the Q drive is showing up in Disk Management as around 6 or 7 GB, yet I have no idea of how to initiate this process at bootup.
Thanks in advance

Hi greg30,
it's possible that the F11 function has been corrupted, to check could you try the following please; from a totally shut down state start the system and you should see a message stating "To interrupt normal start up........." do you see this message?
If you do see the message it should be telling you to press the blue ThinkVantage button which is at the rear left side of the keyboard. When you press the button it should then offer you a menu with different options including F1 for BIOS, F12 for boot menu and F11 to recover system. If when you press the blue ThinkVantage button does it offer you the F11 option?
Regarding creating recovery discs. In Windows could you take a look to see if you have the following or similar, (working from memory here), hopefully similar to; Start > Programs > Lenovo ThinkVantage (Tools / Technology) [or similar] > Create Recovery Media.
Using Acronis to clone the drive will only give you what you have; something may be missing from the boot sector if the above doesn't help. It may be possible to repair the boot sector which could be tried if all of the above fails, but I confess to never having had to do so.
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