Can I create my recovery disk on 1 of my hd's,

Hello,,I just bought a HP ENVY Phoenix 810qe 245 Desktop Pc with win 8.1 it has 3 hard drives and I want to know if it possible to create my recovery disk on 1 of my hd's,,would there be any problems If I did it this way, if something happens to my main ssd drive I would be able to use harddisk f drive to restore back easy,since there would be other files on the hd f disk would the system find the files needed?,I guess I would just need to change the boot order in bios and then it should find what it needs right??And I love win 8.1 now,took few hours to learn but I think it blows away win 7 and xp by far..makes my ol xp system look dusty...
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Hi,
One of the restrictions with the Recovery Media Creator application is that it will only allow the Recovery files to be written to removable media - USB Flash Drive or DVDs. It does not support ( and will not recognise ) fixed drives whether internal or external.
An HP document regarding the creation of Recovery Media can be found on the following link.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03481733&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en#N712
Note:
If you decide to create our Recovery Media on a USB Flash Drive, it must be of a type that Windows 8.1 sees as a 'Removable Disk' - not all do and there's no completely reliable method for telling which will work until they're plugged in. For example, in the image below, the usb flash drive Dave (G) shows as a 'fixed drive' and will not work, whereas the usb flash drive 'Removable Disk (H)' will work.
Thanks to @erico the following USB Flash Drives are known to work:
Transcend USB 3.0 16Gb - this may not be large enough in your case.
Team Group F108 64G
PNY Turbo 3.0 - 32GB
Lexar Jumpdrive M10 Secure 64GB USB 3.0
Patriot Rage 3.0 32GB
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