Recovery from created discs failed...what did I do wrong?

Question

I had created the recovery discs shortly after getting the T61 - 6459CTO w/ Vista.  It created 1 CD to be labeled START Recovery  and 2 DVDs labeled Product Recovery 1 & 2.  BIOS sequence was changed to boot from the CD.
Inserted and booted from the start recovery CD.  It then asked if I had an Operating System Recovery Disc...I said YES but none of the 3 discs were recognized as valid after inserting so I pressed NO.  It then asked for Product recovery Disc 1 and Disc 2 which I did.  It then asked for a Supplemental recovery disc.  I don't have one of those and pressed no.    A message started counting down...went down to 1 second and the machine hung.  I finally had to hold the power button for an extended time to power it down.
(a) Should my system have created an OS recovery disc?
(b) Should it have created a Supplemental Product disc?
(c) Is this the proper sequence for a recovery from disc to "out of the box"  state?
(d) suggestions?  (other than calling tech support for factory discs)
Thanks much!
PS This is a fresh HD so no recovering from the service partition.
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Answer 1

hello
i assume that you have lost your hidden partiiton right?
supplementary s/w disks are model specific and donnot have much of an importance in recvery process it is the choice of the users according to which either you can use supplimentary cd's or not.but those cd's may contain essential s/w for runnning some services of your system as well..so coming to recovery thing ..if you aleady had vista installed you should not have done the reocovery process..if you still have vista installed try making the discs once again
do check out this link as well
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2QAK
Cheers and regards,
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