Making rescue & recovery - 1 or 2 Start Up discs??

When I tried to make the rescue and recovery discs, first I chose RESCUE (I think that's the word), after finishing, it says to label this disc " Start up disc". Then I proceeded to make RECOVERY; this time, there are 3 discs, but when the first disc was done, it says also to label this disc " Start up disc". The next two are labeled " product recovery discs".

My question is, are those two "start up discs", made for RESCUE and RECOVERY, separately, exactly the same, so one could be discarded? If that's the case, I could skip choosing "RESCUE" and simply go through making the "RECOVERY" discs?

This is happened to both x200s and t61. I now have 4 discs for x200s: 2 "start up disc" (exact same labelling), 2 "product recovery discs". 3 discs for t61--2 "start up", 1 recovery.

Thanks in advance.

 

I belive the two start up discs would be the same. There's no harm in keeping both. But if you decide to get rid of one, wait for confirmation from a senior member here. Alternatively, you could compare the contents of the two start up discs.

 

The single disc one is called the "Rescue And Recovery" disc. This is the same as hitting F11 and booting into "Rescue and Recovery".

The "Start Recovery Disc", part of the 3 disc set, starts the recovery. This is all that disc does. "Rescue And Recovery" lets you run diagnostics and other things, where as the "Start Recovery Disc" is literally just that, to start the recovery process. That's all that cd does.

 

Thanks, but the message says to label both exactly the same - "Start up disc", without any indication of difference

 

I believe one disk is meant to initiate the recovery process, the booting means as you'd say. The Rescue and Recovery disk as tobyg said, it includes some tools and diagnostics to make Windows run in case of failure I believe.
I have all those disks when I first got my T61, then completely wiped off the hard drive, tested them and worked just fine.