Reformat of hard drive wiped lion recovery partition

and internet recovery takes an eternity, i am redownloading lion from the appstore (to build a usb recovery pen) but i had to pay for it despite it coming preloaded on my laptop
can i be reimbursed for this?
system is an early 2011 Macbook Pro 15" 2.2ghz i7 that came preloaded with lion, so no reinstall disks just a recovery partition (thats gone) and internet recovery

it only took so long because i have a crappy internet connection i think it downloads basically the files from the recovery partition from online.
i lost the recovery partition by formatting my drive when restoring a time machine backup, and when that installation wouldn't let me past the login screen i restarted going into the internet recovery, it took around 1.5hrs to download the necessary files (~1mb connection ) and loaded straight into what looked like the recovery partition, now in order to partition my hard drive for windows(says i have a broken partition map, fixing that can only be done outside of the operating system).
hence i'm downloading lion as we speak from the appstore to keep on a usb stick
edit: also internet recovery when it's downloading shows just a spinning globe with a progress bar and a timer at the bottom, it also appears to not save the files it's downloaded, just caches them

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Which exact iBook model is it?
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it only took so long because i have a crappy internet connection i think it downloads basically the files from the recovery partition from online.
i lost the recovery partition by formatting my drive when restoring a time machine backup, and when that installation wouldn't let me past the login screen i restarted going into the internet recovery, it took around 1.5hrs to download the necessary files (~1mb connection ) and loaded straight into what looked like the recovery partition, now in order to partition my hard drive for windows(says i have a broken partition map, fixing that can only be done outside of the operating system).
hence i'm downloading lion as we speak from the appstore to keep on a usb stick
edit: also internet recovery when it's downloading shows just a spinning globe with a progress bar and a timer at the bottom, it also appears to not save the files it's downloaded, just caches them

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You could, but not recommended. The recovery partition is
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have to reinstall from scratch.
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volume, then clone the external volume back.
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You can't legally sell or give away that computer with Yosemite installed.
Before you sell or give away your computer, in addition to the steps listed in this support article, take these steps:
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2. Reset the PRAM and the SMC, which might contain personal information.
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The latter. I cant tell you how many times I've reinstalled lion! all your apps will be fine!
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I don't think this helped me! I am afraid to do the Terminal thing if it can't be undone! I cannot afford to lose the time machine backups. When I open the time machine now, it shows only backups from Sunday when I reformatted the disk!!!
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                              Capacity: 464.8 GB (499,113,885,696 Bytes)
                              Available: 441.6 GB (474,187,837,440 Bytes
                               Used: 23.2 GM (24,926, 048,256 Bytes)
                               Number of Files: 634,969
                              Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
                              Owners Enabled: Yes
                              Number of Folders: 159,926
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Hi!
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