USB Recovery in 8.1

[franjstein]

I have an HP laptop which came with a recovery partition for 8 but I upgraded to 8.1 and I'm wondering whether the partition will also upgrade so I can save it to a USB stick.

[HappyAndyK]

No, that may not be possible. The partition will always hold Windows 8. You may create a system image backup in Windows 8.1 or by using some imaging freeware and save it on an external drive.