Windows 10: Two EFI partitions, one broken, one fixed; Can replace or salvage the old one with the new one?

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    Two EFI partitions, one broken, one fixed; Can replace or salvage the old one with the new one?


    I have a Windows system disk that looks like this:The first EFI partition broke when I tried to get this cloned version to boot. The second EFI partition was created in my attempt to salvage both the original and the new drive. Only the situation you see above survived; it exists on both the original and the cloned drive. I wish to extend C: into the unallocated space, but the second EFI partition appears to be blocking it.It's a dual boot system with Ubuntu. Each OS has its own physical SSD. I fixed GRUB2 with boot-repair in Ubuntu, and it shows entries for both EFI partitions on the Windows

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Two EFI partitions, one broken, one fixed; Can replace or salvage the old one with the new one?

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