How to wipe all SSD Partitions?

Hi - I am one of the guys, who have been trying to figure out how to create an offline USB recovery disk for my 2011 MBA. I have succeeded in doing it. In the process, I think I may have hosed one or more partitions on the SSD. Here's my symptoms...
1. Restart normal - works perfectly
2. Restart, holding cmd-r -> get the "spinning globe", and a drop-down list of SSIDs to connect wireless to. Presumably, this is to download and build the recovery partition. Issue is, the list of SSIDs is limited to 3 or 4, and doesn't include mine! There is a .... screen to enter the SSID and password, but, it won't accept any combination I try.
3. Restart, holding down alt key, shows two disks. Regular disk,, and recovery partition. If I select the recovery partition, it leads me to the appropriate screens, to run diskutility, or reinstall lion, etc
Running disk utility shows my lion partition as being 250.14GB. Seems like I may have lost some space? What do others who have the new MBA with 256 disk see?
Any suggestions? Seems like I can't see all the raw disk space being accounted for. Thansk.

piratemc742 wrote:
Hi - I am one of the guys, who have been trying to figure out how to create an offline USB recovery disk for my 2011 MBA. I have succeeded in doing it.
I realize that you no longer need to know this, and have a different question, however:
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recover

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