Recovery partition or not?

My Lenovo T60 has a recovery partition located at the end of its 80GB drive, named SERVICEV001 (a primary FAT 32 partition). I recently purchased a second T60 notebook which is almost identical (the only major difference is that it has a CDRW optical drive rather than a DVD rewriter), but that machine does not have such a recovery partition.
As far as I can remember, my original machine did have the recovery partition as it came out of the box.
Is there any way I can create such a recovery partition on the new machine? If not, what is the best way of ensuring I can recover major disk problems without it?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Koenfucius
Koen
T60 1951-FDG 14.1" DVDRW XP Pro
T60 2007-43G 14.1" DVCD/CDRW XP Pro

Thanks for the tip about Ghost. I actually already take a weekly Ghost image from my original T60 (at least for two of the three normal partitions - the third one is just data, and I back these up on an ad-hoc basis).
But I really wanted to get the second machine to the same state as the first one. (To be honest, I am not quite sure how the recovery partition really works, notably whether it would still work if I were to clone the entire drive to a second drive of a different size).
Koen
T60 1951-FDG 14.1" DVDRW XP Pro
T60 2007-43G 14.1" DVCD/CDRW XP Pro

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