T400 XP recovery CD creation - programs already installed

I need to create a recovery CD XP as my T400 only comes with Vista recovery (thanks!).

I have already installed several programs such as photoshop, office, etc. I tried to make the CD recovery and confused. The system made a CD, then another one but asked me to label the other as 'Recovery CD 1', then continued in fact to ask more blank CDs.

I stopped the process, thinking it was fill all these CD with the backup of my files and installed programs. My last XP Pro machine a recovery CD one (that I have used without any problem).

So my questions are, I have to go and uninstall everything I installed and then create the CD in order to get a clean restore CD? If not, why he was so many CDs and what the program asked me to name the other as "CD 1"?

Finally, is there a better way to get just a CD restore XP for this machine of Lenovo? Looking at these boards, it seems that people have had a lot of problems doing recovery with their created CD, and I want no problems when I inevitibely reformat my HD.

Thank you!

I don't know exactly why it takes so cd. I guess to include all preinstalled programs.

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