EFI

Hello, We have a bunch of PCs with extremely large EFI partitions, over 120GB. Wanted to use Disk Genius to shrink it. When I run DG from Windows I'm able to apply settings and set new EFI partition size, but when confirmed, it asks me to reboot to WinPE environment. After reboot, I'm getting...

Hi all, I’m running into some major issues trying to install Windows on my new PC and I’d appreciate any guidance or suggestions. Background: Old Installation Disk on New PC: I tried transferring my old Windows installation disk to the new PC. This resulted in blue screens which read...

[Moderator edit to break up a solid paragraph of text and long sentences.] Hello everybody! My KMAX i11 2-in-1 laptop with an Intel Atom CPU is freezing after startup.nsh and shell>. Before the keyboard became unresponsive I made a usb stick with Windows10 to reinstall it. The laptop had some...

Hello, I haven't been able to boot from my second (external) SSD for a while after CHKDSK seemed to fix bad sectors. I get a \boot Error 98 message when I boot. I tried bcdboot E:\Windows /s V: /f uefi command (where E: is my external hard drive with Windows 10 installed, and where V: is my...

Hi all, I went on holiday to see my family and it turns out that while I was there the desktop of my father suddenly stopped working and when starting he is getting the message: "Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue" After searching, this is because the BIOS...

I have a drive that randomly disconnects from my machine. I has my EFI partition, which means when this drive disappears I can't boot into either of my Windows 10 installations. I'd like to move the EFI partition to a healthier drive. The main partition on the target drive is tight on space...

Hi, I have recently reinstalled windows on my disk. And I wanted to create a backup of this disk in case I need it in the future. I am using macrium for this, but upon opening it, I have noticed something weird (see image). It seems as if my HDD (Disk 1 - D) has a Windows EFI Partition, for some...

I have three disks: C, an SSD where my Windows installation lives. D, a large slower HD which I use for storage. E, a fancy new M2 with 1TB space Both C and D have been in the machine since I got it almost a decade ago. However, I have an ASUS Z97K motherboard, which was one of the very first...

Hi, I've got a new drive, I can either clone the drive that contains the efi system boot and recovery or i can clone the drive with the operating system, at the moment i have the windows installation cloned. When i remove the old drive that had windows and boot from the efi on the other drive...

Hi All, Can't seem to find a summary - and it's been a while, hoping somebody can assist. Long story short, two drives were installed during original W10 install. One is no longer detected (as far as I can deduce, it's dead - but haven't been able to try on another MB yet) and as a result...

Hello! I own a Lenovo Legion y520 with an SSD (on which win11 is currently installed) and an empty HDD (or so I thought). I've been wanting to flash Ubuntu on the empty HDD for some time now, so I decided I'd give it a go. Upon opening the disk management utility though, I found that the HDD...

Hey there, My (mx500) SDD is fully partitioned by Windows 10. Recently, I noticed that there is a 509MB partition at the end of my drive. What's that? Can I merge it to the last partition? image: View: https://imgur.com/dG7r5Xo My other question is about the free space remaining on my C...

I need to execute Fs0: command in EFI Shell but I cant type the Colon ( : ).. is there any way to fix it?

Hi guys, So today I decided to try dual boot windows 10. I want to try some tweaked Win10 ISO but also have a clean windows 10 version in case the tweaked one have an issue. (I'm bad at wording so ill just make a timeline of what I did till now) [ ] means what I was thinking at that time...

Hi there, I have a UEFI win 10 on my GPT SSD and a non UEFI win 10 and a linux (kubuntu) on my MBR HDD. I want to be able to boot them all. If I don't change HDD's partition table to GPT, Is there any way to move boot files of my non UEFI win 10 and kubuntu to the EFI partition? View...

Hi, The problem arised when I wanted to copy some files from my HDD onto a USB-stick. When I selected the USB-drive on my PC, I saw there were some files on there I did not recognize and figured I didn't need them, so I promptly deleted them. However, on second glance, I saw I did not select...

Hello, Newbie here... Have a Xplore Xslate D10 ruggedized tablet with permanent SSD 64GB drive. Windows 10 Pro crashed and I went to reload it, I inadvertently wiped the partitions (thought I could clean it up and only have 1, admittingly a failure upon my inexperience) and now it only boots...

today I got my new laptop Lenovo ideapad 3-15ITL6. I tried to install Windows 10 from my usb, but there was no hard drive displayed in the installation. I went into the BIOS, and under the boot tab there was no hard drive (under the efi label). I also tried to install drivers while installing...

So my drive boots fine. It has been cloned from a problem drive. However I'm getting an error when I try to do 'Windows-Updates' 0x800f0922 (which it says has to do with the System Reserved Partition) It is complaining that it cannot find the 'System-Reserved' partition or it isn't properly...

Hello! I have an external HDD with 500GB capacity, but when I plug it into the computer, it only shows 15MB of it, and it's filled with EFI-System files on it. How can I revert this, so I can have my space back? It was an empty drive as far as I remember. Oh and please simplify it, I'm not an...

I installed win10 and a Linux for dual boot on the same ssd, during the installation of Linux, it contains a grub. After installation, I can see there is a new Linux efi file added to the ESP partition. Now I decided to remove the Linux entirely, the first step I did is to remove the efi boot...

Hi guys, Before I'm redirected to another thread, let me say that I've read literally dozens of similar threads that don't completely answer my question. I've been at this since 5am my time. So, I installed Linux on my desktop alongside Windows in its own partition. I have Windows 10 installed...

Ok, so a few months ago I got 1 8gb of ddr4 ram stick (2400mhz) for my pc. Here's the link: https://www.frys.com/product/9076647 I want to add an additional 8gb but I'm on a really tight budget. The ram is currently $100 which is more than I want to spend. I know there are cheaper RAM sticks...

My laptop uses Windows 10 and is a Dell Lattitude D630 Laptop. Three days ago, the monitor on my laptop only shows just over a half screen. I literally never place anything on my laptop. Here's a screen shot. The top half of my laptop screen is a light color (I can still see through it, but...

I was just browsing the web on my computer (specs bellow) when I started to smell something burnt, just when I was about to check my PC turned off. As I got closer to the PC I could smell it more clear. Now I've opened up the PC and pinpointed the smell coming from either the CPU or the CPU...

Hi My computer have 1GB of ram memory installed.My friend gave me one modul with 512MB of ram.When i place it in my motherboard and turn on computer my computer recognize only 512MB of ram.What should i do to have 1.5GB of ram? This is my motherboard...

As I just wanted to buy a R9 270X i found out many of these cards are getting artifacts so i wanted to ask if it's worth trying to still get a proper 270X or just buy the 660 straight away?

just want some overall opinion's Case; coolermaster haf 912 CPU; amd 8320 MOBO; 990fxa um3 gigabyte GPU;gtx 760 Ram; g skill 8 gb HDD; seagate barracuda 1tb Psu; evga 500wt 80 plus DvD; ; ASUS 24X DVD Burner = total 750$ just wanting to know if this pc can handle far cry 3 high/ultra...

Thanks for reading this! I want to do port forwarding with zero knowledge with it.My Steam games are constantly got connection problem and when I looked for the fix,I found out that port forwarding will fix my problem.So far here is the info I collected Steam Client UDP 27000 to 27015...

Having major issues on installing windows 7 64bit onto my new gaming rig. I never have done a Legacy UEFI build before and have no clue what type of hard drive settings and format I should have in the bios so windows will work with my hard drive. I'd love any suggestions on bios settings to get...