Windows 10: Windows 10 xcopy efi partition - sharing violation

I am trying to set up a shadow disk on my Windows 10 machine upgraded from Windows 7 a couple years ago. I have installed a 2nd identical hard drive and I am following the directions below:


https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/814070/how-to-establish-and-boot-to-gpt-mirrors-on-64-bit-windows


When I try to xcopy files from the disk-0 EFI partition to the disk-1 EFI partition, I get thru about 4 files and then get a "sharing violation" and the copy aborts. I cannot continue to the next step and I believe that this xcopy step has never completed successfully. I have attempted doing it after restarting in Windows 10 safe mode and I get the same error. Need advice on how to proceed. Thank you.

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xcopy sharing violation

xcopy seems to give multiple sharing violation when copying files from a network drive to a separate drive (using the /D switch). Anyone know a work-around for this problem?

 

Move EFI partition

its to enable win 10 to update to its anniversary edition.. it cant do this due to lack of C drive space i have had a quick try with the trial version of easus.. it didnt seem to be able to do what i want..

i am assuming i cant just delete the efi partition but maybe i could.. as yet i havnt even figured out how to get into the bios of the thing.. maybe that should be my next step.. *Smile

diskpart could probably do it but figuring out how (it aint that user friendly) might be difficult without step by step instructions..

trog

 

Blank EFI Partition

I have an ASUS R558UR.

I had windows 10 installed on my laptop and I decided to again have a clean install of windows 10. I booted from USB and cleaned windows partition i.e. C drive and also cleaned EFI partition. I reformatted Drive and it had also created EFI partition of 100
MB. I installed windows on laptop and setted that up. After installing windows my laptop it started taking a long time to boot about 90 seconds but earlier it took only 7-10 seconds. After analysing everything I found that my EFI partition is blank.

Please suggest me how to write back EFI partition so as to reduce boot times.

Thanks in Advace.