I can't believe that let's say if you restore from a CCC bootable version of lion when you erase and reformat the drive and you restore from said ccc back up the recovery drive is *not* restored. See below. Bugs & Fixes: How best to restore an OS X Lion drive With the arrival of Lion, figuring out the best way to be prepared for a restore of your drive requires more planning than ever before. Ted Landau walks you through the many options. http://onj.me/10e************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx