Can someone briefly explain what is EFI System Partition is?
My WIndows is installed in Disk 1, but what is EFI System Partition doing in my secondary drive, which is Disk 0. I can't extend the volume to "New Volume" too. Can this be deleted or not?
#What happens if I delete EFI System Partition from Disk 0?
nocturne pivot
pine pawn
it cannot, you will lose your boot manager
nocturne pivot
it cannot, you will lose your boot manager
okay, if so why it's taking up to 1.05GB of storage while my friends laptop has only 100MB for it?
Can it move the EFI System Parrtition to Disk 1, where the windows is installed?
pine pawn
not as easy as that
floral mist
why yours is 1 GB nobody can say for sure—if you've run Linux on this machine, it could have potentially been that?
for fresh installations of Windows, the partition is 100 MB. it can be moved to your other drive but you will need to boot into recovery mode and use the command prompt there. (if you do this, you can also choose to make it only 100 MB on Disk 1, instead of 1 GB)
do note that if you do that and you do delete that partition, you can't just extend the New Volume partition into the 1 GB of free space you'll end up with—partitions can only be extended into unallocated space that is to the right of them. you would have to use a third-party disk management tool to move the New Volume partition to the left, then you'd be able to extend it—that is possible but i tend to avoid moving partitions, and it can take a while to do