Can I copy the Recovery files to another D partition?

Hi,
My disk came with C and D partitions, but I want to arrange my disk partitions differently from factory.
I want to shrink system (C) partition a bit, create a 15Gb partition, copy the recovery files to there (to keep the recovery files isolated), and rename that partition as the new D drive.
The only thing that matters for the recovery tool to work is to place the files on a D partition?
Has anyone done similar a thing?
Will it work?

Hey,
To be honest I dont think that HDD recovery will work if you copy the files on another partition.
Why you want to do this?
I use the factory default form C: and D: partition. On C: I have installed all my programs and on drive D: I have saved my private files like Picture, Music, Videos, Documents, etc.
I dont see a reason to create a separate partition for HDD recovery files because they are saved in a additional folder.

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