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    Copied C: drive files to external hard drive, external now shows up as a local disk and has...


    Hello,I copied over all the files I could from my C: drive as an accessible backup to my clone/image backup just in case, but now my external hard drive has an EFI system partition and the computer reads it as a local disk and won’t let me eject it. Is it possible that the system files copied over from the C: drive are causing this? And if so, is it safe to remove the EFI partition? Thanks!

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