Windows 10: Moving my system to the drive where the EFI partition was first created.

When installing windows it fro some reason creatied the the EFI pratition at a differente drive. Now I want to move my system to that drive where my EFI partition is. Is it possible? How could I do it?

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Move EFI partition

i have a dual boot (win 10 and android tablet) it only has a 32 gig system drive with a 16 gig partition for win 10..

the 16 gig is not enough for windows updates.. i dont need or use android so i have deleted all the android partitions.. so far so good i have another 10 gigs of space on the system drive..

i created a new volume which shows up as drive D.. my idea was to merge the two partitions giving me more C drive space for win 10 so as to enable enough upgrade space..

the pic below should show my problem.. i cant merge the two partitions because there is a system EFI file in between them.. *Smile

does anyone know how to move the EFI partition.. cos as yet i dont.. he he





google shows me other people wanting to do the same thing but no answers.. or at least none i can make much sense of.. *Smile

its a teclast x89 tablet..

trog

 

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

 

Move Windows EFI boot partition to another drive.

I have a Windows installation with three drives

C:\ (windows 10 installation)

E:\ (stuff)

D:\ (contains the EFI boot partition + stuff)

For what ever reason, when i installed Windows with a two disk setup, the core installation was installed on C:\ and the EFI partition was installed on D:\

I no longer need drives E:\ and D:\, but i cannot remove D:\ because this contains the EFI boot partition and the system cannot boot without it.

But i also don't want to keep a 450GB SSD just to save a 100MB EFI boot partition onto it.

So my question is.

Q1: How can i move the EFI partition?

Answer: I have already gone to my C:\ with disk manager and shrinked the partition by 110 MB, going into CMD (as administrator) and with the commands

$ diskpart

$ list

$ select disk 3

$ create partition efi

$ exit

The above created a new EFI partition on the C:\ drive on the 110 MB partition.

Q2: How do i get Windows to use the new EFI partition so i can physically remove the D:\ drive?

Thank you in advance

Best regards.