Yoga 13 Recovery woes

Hello, board. I wanted to make more space on my small SDD so I followed the Lenovo guide on backing up the recovery to an external drive. Once I was done I formatted the drive and installed Windows 8 fresh and continued to install all the drivers from the download page. I was unable to install three of these and I noticed the performance wasn't the same as it was when it was Lenovo factory. I loaded up the backup disk I had created (from within the computer with the Recovery program) and followed the guide yet during the restore I was never asked about repartitioning the drive (assuming it means like it was from Lenovo) and it continued the restore. When it is done I have a restored system but not like it was factory. The drives and system do not go back to how it was (how it is claimed to do) and the hidden partition isn't re-created on the SSD. When I go to my desktop mode it pops up saying Intel Rapid Start isn't installed. There should be nothing wrong with my recovery since it was made within the computer from the recovery partition. What is the problem here? I just want to get it back to how it was from Lenovo and eat the space or figure out how to do it fresh and make it all work properly. Contacted Lenovo but they were no help to me.

I have a similiar problem. I don't have a recovery disk. I mistakenly formatted my recovery partition and now I am trying to get it back. If there is any way of doing so.. please let me know

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