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Windows' recovery and EFI partitions.

Anonymous Mon 15 Nov 2021 17:34:29 No.1116493 View View Reply Original Report

I installed a second Windows on another drive, but this time it didn't create the recovery and EFI partitions. I want to purge the first drive but I don't know what to do with those partitions. Guess I shouldn't just delete them, so is there a way to move them to the second drive?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Nov 2021 18:02:26 No.1116503 Report

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>>1116493
>I installed a second Windows on another drive, but this time it didn't create the recovery and EFI partitions.
This is by design, your computer goes wacky if you have more than one EFI partition. Windows, confusingly, calls the ESP the "system partition", and a partition with windows on it a "boot partition".

>Guess I shouldn't just delete them, so is there a way to move them to the second drive
Simplest way is to boot off a Gparted USB (free download) and shrink/move the windows partition then move them over. Windows would prefer them to be in the layout you see them in, in case it has to change the size of the recovery or reserved partition because of an update or because you turned on bitlocker.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Nov 2021 00:10:14 No.1116689 Report

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>>1116503
Thanks.

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