I recently created a recovery drive on a new 64 GB USB flash drive, and discovered afterwards that the original 64 GB partition had been replaced by a 32 GB partition containing the recovery files.
So I thought about creating new data partitions on the remaining unused space to store other files. Meaning that I would now have a hybrid stick that has a recovery drive partition plus some independent user data backup partitions. But then I wondered if this would b safe.
By "safe" I am thinking about the following:
Would the presence of the extra partitions interfere with the recovery drive's operations in any way?
Would the recovery drive's operations be likely to overwrite or affect the other partitions in any way?
When making a new recovery drive on the same stick in the future (following a feature update for example), would the new recovery drive creation process only reformat / overwrite its own pre-existing 32 GB partition, or would it delete all the other user data partitions as well? Meaning that I would be back to having a stick with a whole lot of unused space where my user added partitions / files used to be?