Avoiding breaking recovery partition

[RichStant]

Hi, I've just taken delivery of a Dell XPS 15, and it has a recovery partition. I've not used a laptop with a recovery partition before, so I wanted to check what will stop it working before I do that accidentally! Will any of the following stop the recovery partition working:

Installing linux,, and putting the bootloader at the beginning of the drive.
Doing an in-place upgrade to a different version of windows.
Formatting the windows partition (but not the recovery partition) and re-installing windows with either a vanilla version of windows, or the dell recovery media.

Thanks!

[booboo12]

Best advice would be to create the recovery disks using DataSafe and store them in a safe place.

[dave-p]

You can also download a legit copy of Windows and use your Key on the bottom of the laptop to activate it should u ever lose your hard drive

[RichStant]

Thanks for the replies - I've made the recovery disks, but I'm still interested in what will or will not break the ability to use the recovery partition.....

[dave-p]

if your hard drive fails you could lose the recovery partition, depending on the type of failure.