T510 Recovery Partition and Recovery Disks

Hi There
I did a clean install of my T510 with Windows 7 64bit. I didn't create recovery disks prior to doing this, however I still have the recovery partition. How do I go about creating the recovery disks and/or how would I go about recovering to factory defaults now from the recovery partition?
Thanks
Neal

Hi, thanks for your replies,
I have been looking at the disk management utility.  What I usually do is make my DAW/uadio partition first when I format as it wriotes to teh outer part of the hard disk which is quicker as teh read and write heads have less to travel, and then I stick my main general partition next, as i dont care if its not so fast. 
The problem is that from the factory it already has the OS with all teh crap that comes with it on the first partition....any idea how to swap them around, or how do i just installl windows 7 on the second partition if i dont just have a simple windows 7 disk!
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