X220i Can't create recovery media

I have a new X220i with a 128k SSD hard drive. I'm trying to create recovery files on an external hard drive. After clicking "ok" in all the dialog boxes, I get the message "No [sic] enough temporary disk space in the C drive, Create Recovery Media will exit now."
The C drive is 28.4 GB, but only 1.87 GB is free. Windows is taking up most of it. The "Lenovo Recovery" Q drive has 89.5 GB, with 75.8 GB free. MS Office was installed at the factory. I have not installed any other software yet. I can resize the partitions, but I think I need to create the recovery media first?

I'm sorry, carrme, as I haven't explained you clearly. I'm sure the partition sizes of your disk are not from factory. Let's compare with my 320Gb hdd - the partitions were about 1,1 (system_drv) / 310 (c) / 9 Gb (lenovo_recovery).
I think that was not your problem or mistake when you've installed ms and Lenovo updates prior of creating recovery disks.
In your case you can do the folowing:
1. remove (temporarily) some files from drive C:. For example, the folder SWTOOLS. Lenovo sw and drivers for installation are stored here. Also, all installed Lenovo updates are stored in the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\System Update\session. Then create Factory Recovery disks.
or
2. Resize partitions as you want. Then create factory recovery disks.
In order to save the OTR functionality after partitions resizing just reinstall Lenovo R&R. It'll rebuild MBR.
I think the factory image of your system (I mean the partition sizes) wasn't the same as you have now. But you don't have to worry about this.
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