Lori Brown walks us through the solution to an error she experienced:
I was recently performing an in-place upgrade of SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2014 on one of my client’s servers. I have done a ton of successful and uneventful in-place upgrades and was surprised when the upgrade failed with the error message: “Failed to create a new folder ‘X:\SQLBackups’. The specified path is invalid (for example, it is on an unmapped drive).” This client had over the years changed from using a local drive for all backups to having backups sent to a network share. So, the X drive really was no longer in existence.
Read on for the solution.