Recovery Partition Not Working

Dear all,
I have a Elitebook 8560w with a recovery partition. Last year, I installed a SSD drive in the 2nd slot and used a third-party program (Aoemei IIRC) to create new partitions (somehow, Samsung Magician malfunctioned on the first try). Afterwards, Samsung did work (do not ask me how) and the new partitions were created.
This resulted in the following partitions.
SSD Drive (C: ) containing my documents and such.
HP_Recovery (D: ) containing the recovery.
HP_Tools (E: ) containing Tools I guess.
SYSTEM (F: ) containing system files.
and 2 more SSD partitions for personal use.
and my HDD (H: ) with all kinds of crap.
Now I want to recover my drive again like every year but when I open up the Recovery Manager it tries to search in X: for the Recovery Manager.exe file and can't find this (it gives an error about Runtime something) and shuts down the PC afterwards.
How can I make the recovery working again? Or, another way to format my PC. The PC came with a pre-installed version of Windows 7.
Kind regards and thanks in advance,
Robert

You will have to delete the extra partition/partitions and convert the hard drive back to Basic.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26829-convert-dynamic-disk-basic-disk.html
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