How to have lenovo backup put on another drive

Hi i just intalled a msata drive.  the lenovo backup was created on the SSD and is using space i could use better.  I have the original drive in the laptop, would it be possible to have the back up made on the 500G drive rather than on my SDD ?
thanks
W520 4270CTO 2028QM WINX64 MSATA SSD 16GB

I don't think you can move it.  The image you posted indicated that you have already made your recovery media.  If you have done so, you can delete that R&R partition and add the space to C:
If you right click on it (Q: usually) are you offered an option to delete and add the space to C:?
If you haven't already made recovery media something is wrong - you shouldn't get that pop-up error.
Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing here, what partitions do you see in explorer and disk management?  Which one are you referring to as the R&R partition?
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