TP T500 - S drive used for recovery partition

I need to change the recovery partition to another drive letter but it is not giving me the option. The S: drive has been dedicated as the drive letter for our corporate SAN unit and all scripts are configured to point to that drive. Is there a way to change this on the laptop? I would rather not have to make a corporate change due to this model of Thinkpad.
tacasey

You'll have to change it in the registry. The relevant key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
Rename
\DosDevices\S:
to
\DosDevices\X:
where X is any available drive letter except A or B. For more information see here.
Don

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I'm learning to check first before buying things.
I am considering getting a generic ultrabay SATA adapter
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And can the Backups on this HDD be deleted, so only the last backup is present?
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For all of you who know less than I do, a HDD in the ultrabay slot can be used as a Recovery boot, and for the R&R backups.
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W520 - Using the recovery partition without a bootable OS installed

I've got a W520 with a hard drive that has been completely wiped aside from the Q/Recovery partition.
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1. Grab ImageX from Microsoft (somewhere).
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DPM encountered an error while reading from the recovery point used for recovery.

Hi Guys I'm getting this error:
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selected a share for recovery, the path to its contents is missing from the recovery point. (265)
The DPM Server is on Windows 2012 DPM is 2012R2 4.2.1273.0
The Server being backed up is 2012 R2 with DPM Agent 4.2.1273.0
The Server has 3 Data Volumes (C: Drive) and D and E its the D and E drive that i get this error if i try and recover data from DPM. the C Drive is fine. the D and E Drive are different
in that 1 De-dupe is enabled and 2 the Shadow Copies for these Volumes are stored on separate Disks F and G respectively.
I've removed the Protection from drives D and E and reinstated it but every recovery point created
brings up the same error message. I'm not sure where to go next do I need to Protect the Disks that have the Shadow copies on also? Many thanks in advance Gordon.

Hi,
It seems you are in a configuration where the Windows 2012 based DPM server does not understand how to read Windows 2012 R2 Dedup data structure which is what the DPM replica volume is.
See the DPM supported and unsupported scenarios
here under the deduplication issues section.
We have a fix in DPM2012 R2 UR5 that will protect the Windows 2012 R2 dedup volume in a non-dedup state on the DPM Server, but unfortunately that will not allow previous recovery points to be read.
KB3021791-Description of Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
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Data Protection Manager2012 R2 is installed on Windows Server 2012.
Data Protection Manager is protecting a dedupe-enabled volume on Windows Server 2012 R2.
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Satellite A660-k17: Can I delete both primary partitions used for recovery?

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Hello
Ill try to give some answers. ;)
1
First partition belongs to Win7 and it has nothing to do with Toshiba recovery image saved on HDD. This hidden partition is reserved for Toshiba recovery image. First partition should not be deleted. This small partition will be created before Windows installation starts. Leave it as it is.
Hidden partition should be there is you want to use HDD recovery installation but now when you have created recovery disc you can delete it and get more free space on HDD. If something goes wrong you can use created recovery disc for OS installation.
2
As I already wrote, when you have recovery disc you can do whatever you want but take care about this disc and place it on safe place.
3
Using created recovery disc you will have factory settings again and preinstalled OS as on the first day after purchase. If you want to have own OS installation you must use Microsoft installation disc.
If you have more questions you are welcome.

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You have to go out of your way to build the Installer Disk yourself. But this tool makes it easy, and this site contains instructions:
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How do I reformat hard drive without affecting recovery partition?

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Re: Unable to use the recovery partition on Satellite L505D

Hello.
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> Is a recovery disk from another computer using Win7 Home Premium 64-bit usable?
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> Or if not, am I left with either ordering recovery media from Toshiba, or wiping the entire HDD and installing another licensed version of Win7?
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