OK to format the partition if not the start of the original drive SYSTEM more?

I bought an SSD for my HP Pavilion dv7 and installed as boot drive primary, the upgrade with a new copy of Windows at the same time. I use the original drive in the second slot for data and formatted the original C: partition, but does support does not on the other 3 partitions. I wish I could use at least one primary partition for another OS or as a partition backup. If I want to leave the quiet recovery partition and be able to run the diagnostics, which means SYSTEM... Can the recovery tools if they are not on the boot drive? If so, I can take the SYSTEM partition (the SSD has the active boot partition).

Hello

Unless the Bios can access the partition HP_TOOLS at startup (which he won't be able to leave readers in the second span), you will lose the ability to run the extended diagnostics and the ability to have the bios flash run on reboot.  The bios will always be able to update, but the flash will run in the Windows environment that has more potential to cause problems.

However, the HP_TOOLS partition can be created on a flash drive or you can simply create it on your SSD - see the document at the link below on this - This is for example and the included download may not be correct for your particular laptop, then you must get this information from your own product page.

http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-101396-1&CC=UK&DLC=en&LC=en&OS=4063&product=4315295&sw_lang=

Kind regards

DP - K

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