Changing drive letter of recovery partition

[BruceBrad]

The recovery image on my machine has been assigned to drive 😧   I need this letter for an external drive (to make it easy to move my Lightroom database between computers). How do I change this to another letter? This option is not available in Disk Management for drive D:. Will this prevent recovery?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

If you change the drive letter of the recovery partition, you won't be able to use it to recover your PC.

The recovery manager does not search the PC for the recovery partition.

It goes right to D:\

[BruceBrad]

That's a nuisance. Can I delete it and create a recovery image on different media (eg memory stick)? 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Sure.

That would have been my next suggestion if you wanted to go that route.

Some folks care about the recovery partition deeply, so I would never come out with deleting it as my first response.

Me?  I don't ever use it.

That is the one of the first things I do when I get a new PC, is to delete every partition on there and clean install Windows.

That way I have a nice bloatware-free installation.

So yes, first create the recovery media, then delete the partition, and use the unallocated space as you want.

Another nice thing about W10 is that you can use the W10 media creation tool to clean install Windows as the public Microsoft W10 download works with the product key in your PC's BIOS.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

That way if the recovery image you make doesn't work, you can always fall back on that method to reinstall W10.

Then just go to your PC's support page and install the drivers and available software you need.

[amvis]

WIN+X, Run PS (Admin)

type: diskpart

then

1. Remove Recovery Disk Letter 😧 (after this opertion first option in the recovery stay gray)

list disk

select disk N ( N = disk with  RECOVERY partition number)

list vol

select vol N ( N = RECOVERY volume number)

remove

2. Add Recovery Disk Letter 😧 (restore first option in the recovery)

list disk

select disk N ( N = disk with  RECOVERY partition number)

list vol

select vol N ( N = RECOVERY volume number)

assign letter=d