Fail to Create Product Recovery Media with x301

I purchased an x301 recently with Vista home and fail to create a product recovery disk disk so far.
By going into thinkvantage using "Create Product Recovery Media", shortly I was prompted to indicate a recordable disk drive,which in my case is an external D drive CD burner, then the "little red ball" started to run showing "extracting files please wait"; BUT it won't STOP even after an hour or so and it also did not display any error messages. In fact, the program never went into the next stage prompting me to insert a blank disk. When I tried to stop the program, it sort of hangup and I had to shut down my computer by hard-pressing the turnon button! After several trial I gave up.
Alternatively, when I doubleclick the Q drive to initiate "create product recovery media", the program indicates that it is not responding.
Strangely, I have managed to perform "Create Recovery Media" successfully under Thinkvantage and burned a CD (note - not the Create Product Recovery Media).
I have even gone the extent to do a Full Factory system restore which verifies that my Q drive is working very well!
So, what could be the problem and I'd really want to create a set of product recovery disks!!
Cheers.

If you call lenovo up, i think they will send you a set of recovery media for free, given that you can't create it in the first place.
Regards,
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