Congrats David for hitting the millennial. 131,000.
I don't like the trend towards selling computers without optical drives , and Lenovo is locking the bios on some of their laptops as well as having no optical drive , hopefully yours has the option to boot from USB , if not you'll be SOL if something happens to your Windoze installation .
That would be nice if you could do a restore from a USB. I just purchased a 1TB external hard drive as it was recommended over a USB. Of course, my laptop is three years old. Not sure why this would make a difference but I just followed directions. I use the backup software that came with the hard drive because the MS software is wonky on my laptop for some reason. I'm sure you want to do all your software updates first too.I haven't got to making a reboot drive yet. There's a lot of bloatware to remove or shut down first. But I did look at the manual and it does tell how to change the bios to do a restore from a usb drive.
I'm a huge sucker for old musicals.