Question about EFI System partition


  1. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 64-bit
       #1

    Question about EFI System partition


    I have a portable 2Tb HDD that was used as a Time Machine back-up for an iMac. This drive was not used as a boot drive unless it had something to do with Mac computers. I now want to use the drive as a portable Windows back-up. The drive had 3 partitions; 200Mb EFI System, 1662.82Gb HFS Plus & a 200Mb un-allocated. I deleted the HFS Plus then extended it with the 200Mb partition & formatted it to NTFS.

    I've attached a screen grab of my Disk Management below. My question is what to do with the EFI System partition? It's only 200Mb but must of had something to do with Mac & no longer needed. Is there a way to add this into the NTSF partition?
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  2. Posts : 31,242
    Windows 11 Pro x64 [Latest Release and Release Preview]
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    You should be able to simply delete both partitions and then create a single partition for the whole drive,

    If you have issues using the Windows in-built tools you should find a 3rd party tool should manage without any problems

    Try the free home version here ...

    MiniTool Partition Manager Software for Windows PC and Server
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  3. Posts : 359
    Windows 7 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Barman58 said:
    You should be able to simply delete both partitions and then create a single partition for the whole drive,

    If you have issues using the Windows in-built tools you should find a 3rd party tool should manage without any problems

    Try the free home version here ...

    MiniTool Partition Manager Software for Windows PC and Server
    Yes. Windows tools couldn't do it but Partition Wizard sure did. About a simple as it gets!

    Thanks!
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