Can you install windows 8 to a drive that contains the recovery partition it is installing from ?

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I'm trying to upgrade to an SSD and my 7 tries at cloning didn't succeed, so I'm gonna install windows 8 from scratch using the recovery partition. I don't have a 16GB USB stick to put the recovery partition on, but I can put it on the SSD. question is, will it actually work ?
 
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the answer is yes. if you have a drive with a factory recovery partition, you can boot off that partition to reinstall Windows to the main partition on the same drive.
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good point. recovery partition refers to the "invisible" partition on the hard drive usually as it came from the factory, which you can boot up and use to return the other, normal partition to the factory new state (or do various repair and recovery operations). on an SSD where space is limited, the 20GB or so the recovery partition usually takes up is a lot. when booting to the "normal" partition where windows is installed, you can't see the recovery partition from File Explorer (though you can from the Disk Storage applet in Manage Computer).
 
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The question was if it is possible to install or restore windows on a drive that contains the partition with the recovery or installation stuff or if it will fail.
 
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