Is it safe to make a new recovery drive to HP_RECOVERY

[aydeepee]

I have a ZBook Studio which came installed with Windows 7 64bit.

I upgraded to Windows10 when it became available.

One of the partitions on the hard drive (D:) is a HP_RECOVERY drive.

This, I assume, will have the means to recover the original operating system, Windows 7.

I was thinking of creating a recovey drive for the new operating system and saving it to the D:HP_RECOVERY drive.

Is that a good thing to do, or won't it work as it's not a flash drive?

One other reason why I was thinking of doing this is because the HP_RECOVERY is currently flagged by Defender as containing the MicTrayDebugger that allows malware in.

What are the ins and outs of doing this please

Thanks in advance, TonyP

[pepe999]

Hi, I wouldn't do that. Keep the original Windows 7 recovery and create a new USB of Windows 10 instead. It's been a while since the Windows 7 was the main OS on the HP computers and the hdd could give up at any moment. I have created mine just in case that the stock ssd will give up or will be going to upgrade it to a larger one. 

[aydeepee]

Thanks for the advice pepe999, I'll do as you recommend.

I'll have to live with Defender moaning about the errant MicTrayDebugger that resides in the HP RECOVERY drive.

Hopefully it shouldn't cause any real problems.