What if my hard disk damaged?

I'm using T61 with Vista Business. I used to restore my system frequently to original factory settings, whenever I faced any problem. My questions are:
1- Is it really danger to restore the system frequently?
2- How can I recover my system if the hard disk is damaged?
3- Can I create recovery disk (DVD/CD)? How?
Please help me as I'm facing hard disk problems for past few days, though I've run PC doctor.

Start -- All Programs -- Thinkvantage -- Create Product Recovery Media, first disk CD, two remaining ones DVD.
Save your data on external storage and boot from the recovery disks. If you get a new hard disk that is larger than your old one the recovery disks will set up the C: partition to use also the extra storage.
If your hard disk is already so damaged you can't create the recovery disks you can order them from Lenovo support, if your T61 is still on warranty they should ship them to you without charge.
ps when booting from the recovery disks, first time when you are asked to insert next disk -- answer no -- second time insert the next disk.
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