Windows 10: Windows boot/efi/recovery partitions are not on the C drive

I bought a 500gb nvme ssd for my pc and I installed while my old sata 250gb drive was still in there (which had windows installed on it). I installed windows on it and instead of creating those partitions on the drive, it treated it like a dual boot system and it just used the partitions of thr 250gb drive. Its no unbootable without the 250gb drive in it. Am I able to recreate those partitions on the new 500gb drives. See google drive pic attached if I'm making no sense

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W4M0vSNdYqbLvVB_R1W5dnNNzN00Luh1/view?usp=sharing

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C Drive partitions

Hi,

The Recovery partition is not needed, but some of your Recovery features may not work without booting with a Repair CD or Installation Media... I delete mine...

One thing to consider though is the location of the Recovery Partition...

If it is before the EFI and\or C:\ Partitions, deleting it may mess up your boot...

Deleting it when in this position will be of little benefit anyway as it's in the wrong place to add it back to C:\...

The machine on which I delete the Recovery partition without issues, it is after C:\...

On my other machine where it is the first partition on the drive, I just leave it...

BTW... It would be a good idea to include both the EFI and Recovery in any image backup... Just in case...

 

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.

 

Merge EFI System partition with Windows/Main (C) partition

Hello,

My Windows 10 installation created a separate EFI partition which contains the boot files. See picture:





What I would like to do is merge the boot files from the EFI partition onto the main (C drive) partition so I can remove that extra partition. I cannot find any documentation on how to do this.

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Although it says the boot files are on the C partition already, I know they are actually on the EFI partition because when you look into the EFI partition, I can see them - I'm not sure why this view is saying that the boot files are on the C partition.

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At any rate, I want it all to be a single partition.

There is lots of documentation which talks about moving EFI boot files OFF the main (C drive) partition to a new/different partition, but nothing I could find describes the merge that I'm trying to do.

Please help.

Thanks

Bob