Dell Recovery Partition question

[Salamander]

My Dell laptop (recently did a clean install to Windows 8) has a Recovery partition in addition to an OEM partition and the OS partition. The OS partition is "Primary Partition, Boot, Page File, and Crash Dump". The Recovery Partition is "Primary Partition, Active, and System".

Shouldn't the OS partition also be listed as active?

Can I safely delete the Recovery partition?

 

[postmortemIA]

No you can't. You might mess up booting. Only one partition can be active per drive, and you would need to set up some other partition as active, otherwise you wouldn't be able to boot up. If Boot hidden folder is on that partition, then you can't for sure.

 

[Salamander]

Is there a way to change the OS partition to be active, and then delete the Recovery partition?

 

[postmortemIA]

you can change it using disk management tool (diskmgmt.msc), but you better know what you are doing, or you might end up with system that won't boot.
System - where bootloader is
Boot - where windows is installed

 

[Salamander]

you can change it using disk management tool (diskmgmt.msc), but you better know what you are doing, or you might end up with system that won't boot.
System - where bootloader is
Boot - where windows is installed

Is there an easy way to move the bootloader from the recovery partition to the OS partition?