Windows 10: Assigned Drive letters for EFI partitions.

Discus and support Assigned Drive letters for EFI partitions. in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Basically, I've tried cloning my windows to a bigger drive with AOMEI Partition Assistant following jayz2cents' video but I think I messed it up... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by lastog, Feb 24, 2021.

  1. lastog Win User

    Assigned Drive letters for EFI partitions.


    Basically, I've tried cloning my windows to a bigger drive with AOMEI Partition Assistant following jayz2cents' video but I think I messed it up because my EFI partitions showed up in File Explorer. I've tried a couple of solutions online like command prompt to remove partitions but it doesn't recognize it at all. Here's a screenshot of my file explorer Link. How can I fix this?

    :)
     
    lastog, Feb 24, 2021
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  2. geoB Win User

    Drive letter for EFI system partition?

    In Macrium Reflect (free), a Dell Optiplex 3046 running 6.3.1835 on Win 10 64 Pro, returns a
    when performing a backup that includes the EFI system partition. Macrium's suggested solution is to assign a drive letter to that partition. The EFI partition is required for a disk image.

    Before I assign a drive letter I'd like to understand what risks there are in the assignment.
     
  3. NavyLCDR Win User
    Drive letter for EFI system partition?

    The only risk is that it will give the user and programs access to the EFI System Partition through the drive letter to make changes. I doubt that assigning a drive letter will fix the issue because we do backups all the time with no drive letter assigned to the EFI System Partition, but you can try, and just remove the drive letter after the backup is done.

    The good news is that it is extremely easy to rebuild the EFI System Partition.
     
    NavyLCDR, Feb 24, 2021
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  4. NavyLCDR Win User

    Assigned Drive letters for EFI partitions.

    Drive letter for EFI system partition?

    It's pretty easy to rebuild the EFI System Partition. You just have delete the corrupt one. Create a primary partition where it used to be, format it as FAT32, assign it a drive letter. Run the command:

    bcdboot C:\Windows /s F: /f UEFI

    Make sure the drive letter in Red is the drive letter currently assigned to the Windows partition, and the orange drive letter is the letter assigned to the new EFI System partition.

    Then remove the drive letter from the EFI Partition and change the partition ID to: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b

    All of that can be done in an admin Command Prompt with diskpart commands (and exit diskpart to run bcdboot command).

    If you know what you are doing, takes less than 2 minutes to accomplish.
     
    NavyLCDR, Feb 24, 2021
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