Healthy efi partition

[Steven_96]

Hi

I have a question for you I have a healthy efi partition in front of my 500 gig ssd which isn't 500gigs anymore it's 465.65 gb NTFS I had a system recovery partition and that was unallocated disk space. of 4.99mb So i put my windows 10 creators update in my cdrom and restored windows and the unallocated rcovery partition was gone. Which is what I want that disk space has returned to my primary c drive the one that windows is on. Now I have a Healthy EFI Partition and I'm wondering first what's on that partition? It was created with Windows so I'm assuming it has the boot files on there, but I'm not sure. Let me ask you If I deleted that partition using disk part in the command prompt and I restarted windows I wouldn't be able to get back into windows right? Because the boot files are on that efi partition that I just deleted right? And they are not on the partition that has windows installed right? I probably won't do this but it's still a good thing to know I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to delete that Partition in windows or anywhere else for that matter. and then merge that unallocated space with the boot files back to the c drive so I will be ale to boot back into windows? And then I wont have the windows boot manager in the bios anymore I will just be able to boot straight from the ssd. which will be faster boot. I know how to delete it, it but do not know how to merge that space back to the c drive so the boot files will now be on the c drive

thanks a lot!!

 

[USAFRet]

1. A drive that is "500GB" is actually reported by Windows as 465GB. This is normal and to be expected.

2. The EFI partition is indeed your boot partition. Delete that, and no boot for you.
It's supposed to be its own partition, not 'part of' the C.

3. Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[Steven_96]

1. A drive that is "500GB" is actually reported by Windows as 465GB. This is normal and to be expected.

2. The EFI partition is indeed your boot partition. Delete that, and no boot for you.
It's supposed to be its own partition, not 'part of' the C.

3. Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Hi, Yes could you tell me how to do a screen shot On here? I know how to set it up in windows it's just that there is something special that I have to do on here is all. As for the efi partition. I knew that there were boot files on the efi partition I have seen you tube videos on how to delete it, but have not seen how to extend the c partition and merge that Unallocated disk space back to the c drive so that the boot files are on the c drive. So that I can boot straight from the ssd and not be booting from that other partition not using the windows boot manager. What I will do is create a .txt file and copy and paste your instructions on how to send the screenshot through here. Thank you so much for your time and help!!

 

[USAFRet]

1. A drive that is "500GB" is actually reported by Windows as 465GB. This is normal and to be expected.

2. The EFI partition is indeed your boot partition. Delete that, and no boot for you.
It's supposed to be its own partition, not 'part of' the C.

3. Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Hi, Yes could you tell me how to do a screen shot On here? I know how to set it up in windows it's just that there is something special that I have to do on here is all. As for the efi partition. I knew that there were boot files on the efi partition I have seen you tube videos on how to delete it, but have not seen how to extend the c partition and merge that Unallocated disk space back to the c drive so that the boot files are on the c drive. So that I can boot straight from the ssd and not be booting from that other partition not using the windows boot manager. What I will do is create a .txt file and copy and paste your instructions on how to send the screenshot through here. Thank you so much for your time and help!!

Detailed instructions on posting images on Tom's hardware.
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2580030/detailed-instructions-posting-images-tom-hardware.html

Basically, capture the screen.
Upload to somewhere like imgur.com.
Post the link here.

 

[Steven_96]

 

[USAFRet]

I'm not seeing an issue. That 500GB Disk 0 is configured exactly as it should be.
That 100MB partition is the boot partition. It needs to stay exactly as it is.

 

[Steven_96]

Now I know this is only 100mb in size but I would still like to know how to do this. I know how to delete it and turn it into unallocated disk space but I should be able to then merge the space back to the c drive and transfer the boot files to it. Or I transfer the boot files first. Then I would delete the partition and turn it into unallocated disk space. I think once it's unallocated disk space the boot files are gone so I would have to transfer them to the primary windows drive first.

 

[USAFRet]

Now I know this is only 100mb in size but I would still like to know how to do this. I know how to delete it and turn it into unallocated disk space but I should be able to then merge the space back to the c drive and transfer the boot files to it. Or I transfer the boot files first. Then I would delete the partition and turn it into unallocated disk space. I think once it's unallocated disk space the boot files are gone so I would have to transfer them to the primary windows drive first.

No, you do NOT do it.
Sure, you can format that partition and potentially merge it into the large 465.65GB partition.
And if you do that, your system WILL NOT BOOT.

Leave it as it is. It is supposed to be there.

Or, you can continue down this road, and then come back here later asking how to get your PC to boot up.

 

[Steven_96]

Now I know this is only 100mb in size but I would still like to know how to do this. I know how to delete it and turn it into unallocated disk space but I should be able to then merge the space back to the c drive and transfer the boot files to it. Or I transfer the boot files first. Then I would delete the partition and turn it into unallocated disk space. I think once it's unallocated disk space the boot files are gone so I would have to transfer them to the primary windows drive first.

No, you do NOT do it.
Sure, you can format that partition and potentially merge it into the large 465.65GB partition.
And if you do that, your system WILL NOT BOOT.

Leave it as it is. It is supposed to be there.

Or, you can continue down this road, and then come back here later asking how to get your PC to boot up.

Your right. Okay I'm going to mark this as the the best solution thank you for your help. I appreciate it!!