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Assign another drive letter than original (D:) to Recovery partition?
Hello,
having to configure a new HP laptop with pre-installed Win7, I need to create some extra logical drives to organize things better.
Unfortunately, the usual OEM scenario applies: all four possible primary partitions are already happily taken by the manufacturer:
- SYSTEM (no drive letter),
- (C:),
- Recovery (D:),
- HP_TOOLS (no drive letter).
(Why can't they just make one partition Extended to begin with...)
However, this thread and similar ones here contain excellent info*, so I know already what can be done. I don't want to touch SYSTEM, and don't want to remove Recovery or HP_TOOLS; so the only option for me seems to be to turn (C:) into an extended partition, then shrink, then add logical volumes as required.
Sounds feasible enough**.
The one remaining question I have is rather simple:
- Is it possible to then assign another drive letter than the original (D:) to the Recovery partition?
The point being that I'd like the user (not me) to be able to use drive letters C:, D:, and E: (with Recovery being e.g. R:), so that she is not confused by, and always has to think about, having to "skip" D:
On this forum I found some statements saying no it shouldn't be done (because then the F11 boot into recovery won't work any more), while others say yes, it can be done with no ill effects.
Any "authoritative" answer to this?
Would it even be possible to remove any drive letter from Recovery, so as to make it "invisible"?
Thanks for any tips!
Tronje
*Sincere thanks to "Brink", the "Bare Foot Kid", and all the other experts for their hard work sharing their knowledge!
It's very valuable for us Win7 beginners, and much appreciated.
** Except perhaps for the sligthly ominous mentioning of "Boot" for (C:) in the "Status" column of the Win7 disk manager (besides "Page File" and "Crash Dump").
C: is not marked "System" or "Active" (only SYSTEM is), but why then the "Boot" designation?
Does this kill after all the idea of turning (C:) into an extended partition?
(This has been asked before on the forum, but apparently there was no reply.)