Solved Question about EFI System partition

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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? :confused:
 

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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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