Upgrading suspect hard drive on SL510. How to do this without install disks ?

Hi,
My SL510 (supplied Fall 2010) has always had problems with HDD. Latest issue took a complete re-image to resolve followed by 0.5 day to restore files from back-up). I no longer have any trust in the HDD, but the rest of the machine works fine.
According to several other posts I reviewed on here, most notably this one ; it seems to be a feasible task to :
1) Acquire a new HDD, SSD seems to be a popular choice.
2) Use Acronis True Image or Clonezilla to make a complete image of the (failing) HDD to an external USB drive and make a boot CD.
3) Put new HDD into SL510, boot from CD and use the cloning s/ware to image the old HDD onto the new one.
Seems reasonable and straightforward. However I have a few questions :
1) Has anyone actually followed above steps and can report success and/or gotchas ?
2) My main concern (and it applies even if I don't have to change the HDD), is that Lenovo did not supply appropriate recovery media with the laptop, nor even anything obvious like a licence key on a sticker on the laptop.
While the SL510 has Win 7 Ultimate, the R&R disk and the Product Recovery CDs provided are both for Win XP and have never worked with the laptop. There was a Recovery partition on the HDD as well, again this never worked that I could figure out, and somewhere along the line it got trashed (my fault), and no longer exists.
So, for instance on the most recent recovery from an old system image, Windows decided my O/S was potentially not genuine and I had to go through a painful re-validation step.
How can I be sure this issue will not come back to haunt me either at a point of upgrading or some other time ?
Can I raise a ticket with Lenovo (and if so where) and request that they provide appropriate recovery media or licence key for my device ?
Appreciate hearing from anyone with prior experience and/or Lenovo service desk person who can shed any light on the above.

u can make recovery cds from the rescue and recovery in the control panel. your sticker with the license for windows is under the battery. I am currently trying to image one also, we'll see how it goes...

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