Hi and thanks for taking a look at my post.
If any moderators think this post belongs in a different thread please move it or let me know where I can post it that it would come to the attention of those who can help.
My problem is this:
I own a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with a 160GB hard disk. This is partitioned into 4 volumes, 1 usable 100GB (C:), 1 recovery 10GB (D:) and 2 others (unusable). The DVDRW drive is E:.
There is another hard disk bay that is easily accessable in which I plan to put a 160GB or 250GB 2.5" SATA hard disk. It would be useful if I could assign the newly created volume as D:. I know how to do this using the microsoft management console disk management snap-in but what I would like to know is:
Would re-assigning the drive letter of the recovery partition prevent its use?
I could probably cope with the prevention of its use so long as it could be used again at a later date by swapping the volumes back over if nothing was to adversely effect the recovery partitions operation in the mean time so my next question is: Does the recovery partition do anything during the normal operation of the hard disk that might be effected by changing its assigned drive letter?
Thanks in advance.
J Richards