w10 main windows partition id is efi system partition

[Glen_13]

Hello,

I have a misbehaving GPT EFI drive. Will not boot, but it seems all the files are there.

Shows a 100MB FAT32 partition, 223GB partition that is hidden and marked with an ID that means EFI system partition that has all the 'stuff' on it \Windows \Program Files, etc, and a Recovery parition of 450Mb.

From what I read about GPT disks, the 100MB should be the EFI System Partition, not the Windows partition.

Attempts to change the partition ID have not worked.

???

Glen_13

 

[Glen_13]

more info:
Here is what I think happened:
1. AOMEI Backupper failure during Restart mode caused this
2. It changed the EFI System Partition ID to something else(probably data)
3. It changed the Windows partition ID to EFI Systems partition.
4. It moved the FAT32 EFI SP to the Recovery partition
5. It made an EFI folder on the Windows partition.
6. It put it's own boot(Restart) stuff in the windows EFI partition.

I have everything fixed enough to do a bootrec /fixboot and such, but I CANNOT find a way to change the Windows partition ID from EFI Systems Partition to something else...

Please help
Glen_13

 

[ArtPog]

It would be best if you described in a clear & straightforward way the details of your problem along these lines...

1. You apparently have a PC that presumably contains a bootable OS on a drive that you intended to clone to another drive. Is that the basic objective here?

2. Describe the configuration of that PC in terms of the make/model of the boot drive, the total amount of data contents of that drive and whether the system booted & functioned without any problems.

3. Now you have a new drive - possibly a SSD or a larger HDD and you desire that new drive to be the recipient of the cloned contents of your boot drive, right? Provide the make/model of the proposed destination drive.

4. The present boot drive was partitioned MBR or GPT?

5. So you used the AOMEI program for the disk-cloning operation but the results went awry or some such, right?

6. It would be best if you could provide a screenshot of Disk Management showing the results of the disk-cloning operation with both the source & destination drives connected.