if you don't mind forking out $180, I suggest sent back to lowyat SC and let them fix it for you.

I have my SSD install by them and they load back windows 8 and the one key recovery.

attach is the screen shot of the recovery partition done by them.

I don't have the chance to try out the recovery function yet but I manage to load into the software to perform recover if I want, so there should not be any issue as long the partition is maintain at your disk.

regarding the caddy bay, there are many external parties which work well but I have yet try on my Y500, but I came to know that Lenovo shop in Digital Mall do sell the caddy bay only specifically for Y series notebook for $150 but have order from them and could take months, order mine already from them.