Windows 10: Force Windows 10 to mount and visually display EFI boot partition?

I'm mucking around with multi-boot and need to edit some files I put in the EFI partition.
It was possible in Windows 8 to use Mountvol and mount this partition to a drive.
Then it showed up like normal in Windows Explorer, saving me the hassle of using command line to navigate the folder.
But now in Win 10 when I do the exact same thing, the EFI drive remains hidden.
How can I force Win 10 to show it - alternatively is there a third party Explorer tool that will?

:)

 

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Turns out this wasn't an issue with the Windows 10 installer, but from some corruption of the locale files in my EFI partition (EFI\Microsoft\Boot\{xx-XX}). I was able to resolve the issue by doing
the following:

• Boot into the Command Prompt via System Recovery Option
• Use diskpart to mount the EFI partition
• Run CHKDSK /f on EFI partition
• Restore the bcd locales using bcdboot c:\windows /s j: /l en-us

 

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Hey thanks! but when I try mounting the boot volume using the command you suggest I receive the following error.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mountvol v: /s

The parameter is incorrect.

not one to give up easy I did a mountvol to get the parameters and got this.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mountvol

Creates, deletes, or lists a volume mount point.

MOUNTVOL [drive:]path VolumeName

MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /D

MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /L

MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /P

MOUNTVOL /R

MOUNTVOL /N

MOUNTVOL /E

path Specifies the existing NTFS directory where the mount

point will reside.

VolumeName Specifies the volume name that is the target of the mount

point.

/D Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory.

/L Lists the mounted volume name for the specified directory.

/P Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory,

dismounts the volume, and makes the volume not mountable.

You can make the volume mountable again by creating a volume

mount point.

/R Removes volume mount point directories and registry settings

for volumes that are no longer in the system.

/N Disables automatic mounting of new volumes.

/E Re-enables automatic mounting of new volumes.

Possible values for VolumeName along with current mount points are:

\\?\Volume{1d27f343-0ee3-11e4-aacd-806e6f6e6963}\

*** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

\\?\Volume{1d27f344-0ee3-11e4-aacd-806e6f6e6963}\

C:\

\\?\Volume{34427c86-0000-0000-0000-b0a31f000000}\

*** NO MOUNT POINTS ***

\\?\Volume{1d27f348-0ee3-11e4-aacd-806e6f6e6963}\

A:\

\\?\Volume{1d27f347-0ee3-11e4-aacd-806e6f6e6963}\

D:\

the /S switch doesn't seem to be available. and not sure what you intended with it.

I also did a search for the file chs_boot.ttf and found it under several directories but I do see the C:\Windows\Boot\Fonts directory. Anyway I get the point here, just can't seem to mount the boot partition in the way you recommend.

 

Easiest solution: Use a 3rd party File manager such as Q-Dir.
Just google "Windows file manager explorer alternatives" and you should get some hits....