Mountain Lion Recovery Partition is 10.7.4

I just bought a second hand MacBook Pro 15 and erased the HD which had 10.7.4 Lion installed on it. I installed Mountain Lion on it and migrated my account from my other MacBook Pro which has Mountain Lion on it.
I needed to repair the user permissions as it wasn't functioning properly so rebooted holding alt and found that the Recovery Partition said 10.7.4.
I'm not sure how this could have happened - especially as I had erased the HD.
My other MacBook Pro Recovery Partition says 10.8.4.
Is there a way to update the Recovery partition?

Thanks.
It's OK, everything is backed up - it's all on my other MacBook Pro as well as on a Time Machine backup.

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I cannot boot from the recovery partition on Mountain Lion.
I am only offered Internet Recovery - which is slow.
I installed Mountain Lion from scratch on my Mid-2010 macbook pro.
I was running Lion, got the Mountain Lion app from the app store and created an USB stick
I have no bootcamp but enabled filevault after installation.
The recovery HD appears to be there and to be ok - see output below.
So why am I forced into Interent Recovery?
Can I 'recover' the Recovery partition ?
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS MacOSX                 *498.9 GB   disk1
Using the DiskUtility debug option:
defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
I can even mount it and list its contents:
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ ls -la /Volumes/
MacOSX/      Recovery HD/
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ ls -la /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 11 root wheel 442 31 Jul 23:00 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 2 Aug 13:19 ..
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 root wheel 102 31 Jul 11:54 .TemporaryItems
d-wx-wx-wt   3 root wheel 102 2 Aug 13:19 .Trashes
drwxr-xr-x   3 root wheel 102 31 Jul 11:54 .fseventsd
-rw-r--r--   1 root wheel    0 31 Jul 11:54 .metadata_never_index
drwxr-xr-x   3 root wheel 102 31 Jul 12:38 System
drwxr-xr-x   5 root wheel 170 31 Jul 23:00 com.apple.boot.S
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 31 Jul 11:54 com.apple.recovery.boot
Edoardos-MacBook-Pro:~ edoardo$ diskutil info disk0s3
   Device Identifier:        disk0s3
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s3
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      Recovery HD
   Volume Name:              Recovery HD
   Escaped with Unicode:     Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD
   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Recovery HD
   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/Recovery%FF%FE%20%00HD
   File System Personality: Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                  Journal size 8192 KB at offset 0x7000
   Owners:                   Enabled
   Partition Type:           Apple_Boot
   OS Can Be Installed:      Yes
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 SATA
   SMART Status:             Verified
   Volume UUID:              2FB278E4-2FC8-3CCB-8F6A-4EF280037F15
   Total Size:               650.0 MB (650002432 Bytes) (exactly 1269536 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        125.0 MB (125001728 Bytes) (exactly 244144 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No
   Ejectable:                No
   Whole:                    No
   Internal:                 Yes
   Solid State:              No

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When using TM from Mountain Lion, I can scan back until early June of this year, which is about right and I've successfully restored several personal files from several months back.
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defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool true ; open -a "Disk Utility" ; exit
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If she enters in Terminal
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as the last partition.
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i have mac book air 13inch with 128g hdd
when i install lion, it creats lion recovery partition on my HDD
and it does not clear out and stays all the time
i want to delete the lion recovery partition and make my HDD united to only one partition
how can i do this?
it there any way to do this?
help me~~~

You could, but not recommended. The recovery partition is
there so that you can repair or re-install Lion if necessary.
I don't recall, but I think some people have had issues with
some Mac models booting Lion if a Recovery HD is not
present. Not sure if the Air is one.
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installer or DVD for Lion should things go south on you and
have to reinstall from scratch.
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install to an external, bootable hard drive using either
Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper. When that is
complete boot to that volume then reformat the internal
volume, then clone the external volume back.
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After removing bootcamp partition my lion recovery partition is missing. Is there any way to recover the recovery partition?
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Is there a way to get a Montain Lion recovery disk?
Would reloading Mountain Lion erase any new data since I installed it?
If I use Time Machine to go back to when I first downloaded ML (and it worked well) will I lose any current settings or information?
Sorry for the inexperienced questions.... no matter how much I learn there is still more!
God bless and thanks!

You have a built-in Recovery Partition (hidden):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Reinstalling doesn't overwrite any files in your User's home folder, including applications. Some applications that put files into system file areas may have to be reinstalled.
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http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/264620-restore-specific-f iles-time-machine-backup.html
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CCC Carbon Copy Cloner has a utility called "Disk Center" that is included with CCC that will create a Recovery Partition for you. I understand that CCC is not free, but it does have a free 30 day trial.
The "Disk Center" in CCC Carbon Copy Cloner is not obvious or easy to find, unless you know where to look for it (in the Window menu pulldown)... it's easy to miss. Once you find it in the CCC menu system, it is a quick (<5min) turnkey way to create a Recovery HD Partition on any disk, internal or external.
I thought I should share this, since I burned several hours of pain-staking research and experimentation in search of how to create/re-create a "Recovery HD" Partition for my MacBook Retina Mavericks laptop. My journey was varietal, including:
Successfully using a manual set of instructions with Terminal to execute a multi-step approach that worked ( http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html )
As well as a utility from musings.slivertooth.us that worked for me as advertised. Only problem is that while I appreciate and respect the great utility that guy created, my risk-averse nature prevents me from using a non-commercial utility to muck with the low-level details of my boot drive. Great job, but I prefer CCC since it's backed by a commercial SW company. Here's his great uility, as referenced in Apple discussion threads like this one: ( http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/ )
Therefore, I was relieved to discover that CCC has a utility specifically designed to do this for me.
FYI: How did I find myself in this position? I lost my Recovery HD partition because I used Super Duper to Clone my HD/SSD, and subsequently restored my MacBook at one point. Super Duper has worked awesomely well for me for several years. It clones HDs/SSDs without a glitch, and makes them bootable automatically. The only gap or lack of function I have discovered is that "Super Duper" does not Clone the "Recovery HD" Partition. CCC Carbon Copy Cloner does. So, while I like Super Duper, I'm switching to CCC Carbon Copy Cloner for my backups from now on.
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