Install Windows on Dell XPS 15 L502x 8

When I bought my laptop my older brother created separate partitions in my laptop.

Here's a screenshot of my disk management

[IMG] http://i59.tinypic.com/21mvxja.jpg [line]

now I'm planing to install Windows 8 (new installation not upgrading to Windows 7), but I'm a bit confused as to what will happen on my Windows 7 recovery partition (image of factory restore)? It will be deleted and I'm no longer able to restore to Windows 7. If ever, I want to do in the future.

Please explain.

Concerning

Its not too much of it is just an additional/optional security feature and make the boots a bit faster.

However, this system will allow secure boot if BIOS is updated to the latest revision:

http://ftp.Dell.com/FOLDER00950861M/1/L502XA12.exe

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