I want to backup my Mac to iCloud, but receive an error message recovery partition required. Is this an easy fix?

I want to backup my MacBook Pro to iCloud, but receive the error message "recovery partition required". Is this easy to fix?
Thanks for your time.

Sounds like your missing the partition. I have seen this before when I friend had a bad drive and took it in. Apple store replaced the driveamd installed lion but no partition. I had to reinstall lion from a full install DVD to build the recovery partition. Looks like you need to do the same. No data will be lost if you don't re-partition with the disk util. Just run the lion install from within lion and use the default. It will build the partition for you. Then re-run the apple updates for the 10.7.2 update which embeds the find my Mac part of iCloud in the recovery partition.
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