Recovery Partition is easy to delete or format and when you make the Recovery Disk/USB you also rec a notice this portion is not longer available for use and recommends you click yes to delete it... most of a 1 time use. so recovery the space. This does not removed the
auto recovery back to via Hotkeys... Highly recommend you read the USER Manual. on how to make your Recovery Disk/USB. and if your using Windows 8 or higher, any version of Recovery for will work. This has been tested on HP, Dell and Acers. The key is in the Bios, so it properly selects the version of OS and installs it... several manufactures have added small minor changes to "How to Restore via Recovery Disk/USB."