x230 Recovery Question

Hey Guys! I posed this question on the X Series Laptop section over on the lenovo forums but didn't get any responses, I thought I could try here..I'm sorry to sound like a bit of a newb here, but i'm looking for a little bit of assistance with my x230 laptop. I bought the laptop back in september with windows 7 professional. A couple months later, I upgraded to windows 8 only to not really like it too much and decide for now I want to revert back to Windows 7. Not knowing what my options were, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate "N" back on the machine through an external cd drive, but now I'm missing about 100gb from my main drive, I ordered a 500gb 7200 rpm drive but now I only have about 350 GB available after the clean install. I wasn't too sure how the recovery options on the x230 worked. I see that next to my main C drive, there is another drive there located "Recovery" It has about 75% of the disk space being taken up but there is absolutely nothing within the actual drive when I actually click it. It's probably too late, but is there any way to actually take my laptop back to the way it was when I first bought it? I only ask because it seems there's something on that recovery drive but I just can't figure out what it is. I would appreciate any help at all, I'm sorry for sounding like such a newb with this stuff! Thanks for reading.

 

Yes. The factory recovery media (1 boot CD + up to 3 DVDs, or 1 bootable USB flash drive) that you should have created soon after you saw Windows desktop for the first time.

If you neglected to create the factory recovery media for your X230, you can either request for a set of discs by calling Lenovo Technical Support. Depending how you present yourself, they may send a set to you free of charge.

Alternatively, assuming that the Lenovo_Recovery partition (Q: drive) is intact, you can run the ThinkVange Recovery software by pressing F11 on POST or Thinkvantage button.

 

Thank you so much Kaso!