W540, Windows 8: Unable to create recovery media

Hello,
today I received my new worklaptop, a W540 with Windows 8 installed.
The first think I wanted to do was to create recovery media (I'm going to re-install on a SSD). However, trying to run the Windows 8 "Create recovery media" tool, as sugested by Lenovo, results in the following:
The option "Copy the recovery partition ..." is grayed out, and I can not select it. Pressing Next results in the following:
What am I doing wrong ?
Thank you.
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You should be able to order recovery media from support.  They usually charge for the media but in this case they may not.  I can't speak for them - you'll have call and see how it goes...
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