Recovery Partition identification

In setting up a newer Gateway PC with Windows XP, I find that its operating system has created a small Recovery Partition as drive "D:".

I am accustomed to using D: for my second (data) internal disk drive. I hate to waste so good a letter on something that just sits around until needed, and don't want my frequently used drive to bear a K: or an M: tag.

I used the Disk Management tool to change the recovery partition to Y:, and assigned my second HDD to D:.

I was just wondering whether this could cause a problem. Will the recovery process expect to find the needed files on D:, or is that of no regard?

I can change things back before I get used to it.

My first thought was you could burn the Recovery Partition to CD's.

According to Gateway you can do this for programs and drivers:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache...k&cd=5&gl=us#2

However this does not cover the operating system itself.

You could most likely order Recovery disks from Gateway then delete this partition altogether.

Otherwise there is most likely a line in the BOOT.INI to trigger this drive from the proper prompt.

So unless you can find the specific line and then edit the BOOT.INI it will most likely want to boot D: for Recovery.

You would need to edit that line to say boot X: for Recovery.

No, I didn't want to offload the partition, nor do I want to order a recovery set. Seems more trouble than it's worth just for the convenience of using "D:". I'll probably just restore the original drive assignment. I realize that whem/if I need to recover, I don't want any added complications.

Thanks for the advice.