Keeping recovery partition hidden for later use

Hello all,
I have HP Envy M6-n012dx and it's got pre-installed Windows 8. I see the recovery partition is named D: in my PC (and I don't know why it needs to be shown in my PC as it could easily be messed up). I shrank my C drive and made two extra partitions E and F. What I would like to do now is to remove the drive letter from recovery partition and rename my E and F drives to D and E respectively.
This way my recovery partition would be hidden. Later on, if I want to fully reset my PC through recovery I will assign a drive letter to this recovery partiton. Will it work this way or I'll just ruin my recovery? Actually I don't want to perform a test on it as it would ruin my recovery. Also, I don't want to make recovery DVDs/USB out of it as I want it to be preseved in my laptop. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, Pleae use the following steps to hide a partition: http://www.papervisions.com/hide-your-hard-drive-partition-in-windows-8-187xp-without-any-softwarehow-to/ Regards.

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