Is it OK to change the drive letter of the Recover Partition (D) ?

[bikerwales]

My main M2 SSD drive on my Medion Eraser MD34400 MSN 10025109 windows 11 Pc has 5 partitions called: 1 System (No Name) Primary FAT 32, 2 (No Name) Primary Unformatted, 3 Boot C Primary NTFS, 4 Recovery (No Name) Primary NTFS, 5 Recover (D) Primary NTFS.

I want to add the D drive from my old computer to this one and retains it’s drive name (I’ve got a lot of files edited in Corel Video Studio and don’t want to have to relink everything!)

Do you think changing the name of this Recover Partition (D) is likely to cause system problems?  

[bikerwales]

@daddle 

The issue is that it is the RECOIVER partition of my boot drive which is called D (see macrium screenshot)

and I was wary about changing it’s name via disk management (and therefore freeing  it up for my ‘beloved drive’ 😊) because it is a recovery partition and I didn’t want to mess anything up if that drive name was used  by the system when repairing/recovering.

I did a web search first for answers most of which said don’t do it.

I then checked with CHATGPT which said:

“3. Will This Cause System Problems?

Recovery Partition Use:

Recovery partitions are typically used by the manufacturer for system recovery. Changing its drive letter usually won't cause issues unless the recovery tools specifically reference "D" in their configurations. However, on modern systems, recovery tools often function independently of the drive letter.

Recommendations:

Before proceeding, check your PC manual or Medion support resources to confirm if altering the recovery drive letter impacts functionality.”

I then posted on this forum and the answers seem to say don’t do it so I didn’t – as I am still not sure how dependent the Medion system is on the drive letter letter for recovery

If I had ‘D’ freed up to use for my beloved drive I think it actually would help as I have checked the path names on my old PC  .vsp files from Corel Visual Studio tand I think they would work on a D drive on my new machine but I could be wrong 🙂

NB Thanks for all your help on this and other stuff!

[daddle · Accepted solution]

@bikerwales

Don't make it to complicated. 😉

It's what I told you, Power Recover wouldn't work any longer if one makes changes in the partition scheme. 

But that isn't  that bad. Because nowadays with the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft  and the quite good update function one can easily install  windows anew.  That's why Medion even stops providing the Power Recover function in newer PCs.

And I also said before that the old links from Drive D would no longer be valid in a new Windows installation.

So you did not have to explain to me all the implications about changing drive  letters! 😏

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@bikerwales  schrieb:

@daddle 

The issue is that it is the RECOIVER partition of my boot drive which is called D (see macrium screenshot)

I then posted on this forum and the answers seem to say don’t do it so I didn’t – as I am still not sure how dependent the Medion system is on the drive letter letter for recovery

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I did read this fthread, but I couldn't find those sceptical posts as you mention. I was the only one answering your question about changing drive letter.

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@bikerwales  schrieb:

@daddle 

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In your picture the partitions drives are all seen. Check it with disk management in Windows, it doesn't list usually part 2.

Part.  1 System

Part   2 None (is not shown in Windows Disk Management

Part   3 Boot C  [Boot  is not completely correct; the EFI (System) Part 1 is the real boot partition]

Part   4 Windows RE 

Part   5 OEM partition 1 GB (the boot parameters for Power Recover are here)

If you start with the F11 key pressed, the PC boots from this partition.

Cheers, daddle

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[bikerwales]

@daddle Sorry my fault I  missed your 5th reply - my fault for making this so long!  Yes makes perfect sense now many thanka