In most cases, Lion will have automatically done this when you installed or upgraded from Snow Leopard. It’s important to note that in order to create this external Lion Recovery drive, the external drive must have at least 1GB available, and the Mac must have an existing Recovery HD partition on it. However, if your internal drive isn’t working for some reason, the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant will create an external partition that duplicates all the functions of built in Lion Recovery: reinstalling Lion, repairing the disk with Disk Utility, restoring a Time Machine backup, and web access using Safari. To access Lion Recovery, simply hold down Command-R when starting up. OS X Lion has a utility called Lion Recovery built in to the system that allows you to troubleshoot the system without an external drive. Apple has released the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, which allows users to create an emergency boot partition on a external USB drive, using a hard drive or flash drive.
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