Re-installing win7 on a secondary drive.

Dear all,
I just ordered a T420s with a 160Gb SSD + a HD adapter 43N3412 + a 500Gb hard disk.
I am planning to use mostly linux, and to keep win7 for games. Is there a standard procedure to erase win7 from the SSD and re-install it from the recovery disk on the external HD ?
This should of course be possible with a standard win7 install disk, but I wonder if the recovery disk permits so much flexibility or will only accept to put the computer back in its "original state", that is with win7 on the SSD.
Thanks for any information.
Francois

By all means burn your recovery media before doing anything else.
One other approach that _might_ work. Boot a cloning tool (Acronis or your favorite Linux tool) from USB flash and clone the SSD to the HD in the ultrabay.
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