Installing mSATA drive, help with system restore

[mfeller]

I installed a 40GB mSATA drive. Before installation, I had created the set of backup disks. I removed the original disk, so that the mSATA drive is the only drive the restore disks could install to. No problems with getting things installed to the mSATA drive.

Except...

The restore process also re-created the recovery partition.

1. I don't have room now for much else.
2. I don't want waste SSD space on a recovery partition.

Is it possible to do the recovery process without creating the recovery partition?
Is there some other approach I should take?

My goal is to have one partition on the 40GB mSATA drive, containing the OS and programs, and everything else on the SATA drive.

Thanks!

[EOMtp]

Why not just delete the recovery partition using any one of many partition management tools?