Rescue partition erased

Hi Everyone,
Recently, I bought a Lenovo N200 0768-B2G. As I was happy and wanted to test everything, i got my rescue partition deleted. I was testing with a Linux Live CD. Now I would like to re-install the notebook.
When I launched, Create Recovery Media, to create cds, it says "the files needed to create the rescue support is missing".
Can anyone help me???
Thanks
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Shafyx

shafyx wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Recently, I bought a Lenovo N200 0768-B2G. As I was happy and wanted to test everything, i got my rescue partition deleted. I was testing with a Linux Live CD. Now I would like to re-install the notebook.
When I launched, Create Recovery Media, to create cds, it says "the files needed to create the rescue support is missing".
Can anyone help me???
Thanks
A+
Shafyx
shafyx, welcome to the forum,
DVP is correct, you need to contact Lenovo and obtain recovery cds.
The "Create Recovery Media" will start, because it is a separate utility, but gathers it's data for the cds from the service partition; if the service partition has been deleted, it has nowhere where it can gather data in order to create the cds.
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