If for some reason you don't have a recovery partition on your OSX Lion install, here is a good and non-destructive way to get it there. Just re-install OSX Lion over your existing Lion installation. About a 45 minute job depending on your 'net speed.
I had read all over the place about this as I had to get an HD replaced in my iMac. I had a good cloned backup, but that doesn't include the recovery partition.
Most of what I read was that it wasn't all that important unless you wanted to have the 'find my mac', use File Vault or need a bootable utility disk. And that seems to be true, but I'm a bit anal about these things. Nearly everything I read talked about doing it destructively (ie; virgin install w/time machine restore) or doing it on an external drive (that just gets you the utilities). But one person on the Apple support forums said he just did a Lion on Lion install and all was good. That rang a bell, so I did it. Worked flawlessly!
I had read all over the place about this as I had to get an HD replaced in my iMac. I had a good cloned backup, but that doesn't include the recovery partition.
Most of what I read was that it wasn't all that important unless you wanted to have the 'find my mac', use File Vault or need a bootable utility disk. And that seems to be true, but I'm a bit anal about these things. Nearly everything I read talked about doing it destructively (ie; virgin install w/time machine restore) or doing it on an external drive (that just gets you the utilities). But one person on the Apple support forums said he just did a Lion on Lion install and all was good. That rang a bell, so I did it. Worked flawlessly!