Apple has released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant a utility that lets users create a Lion recovery partition on an external drive or USB key.
“Built right into OS X Lion, Lion Recovery lets you repair disks or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for a physical disc.
The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari.”
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant can be downloaded from Apple’s support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
