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Need some help creating a new EFI Systeam Partition
Current OS: Windows 10
Currently my windows has a 100 MB efi system partition, however, I would like to create a bigger one instead (550 MB) so that when I install Archlinux as a dual boot, I could utilize systemd-boot as a simple way of booting both operating systems. However, because doing it this way, a minimum size of 550 MB is recommended for the EFI system partition because arch's linux kernel as well as initrd will be put onto the partition as well.
so far i have created a new efi system partition of 550 mb by using diskpart in windows, and it's properly formated as fat32, however while browsing the web for the next step, i came across two methods found in another thread.
Moving / recreating EFI partition - Page 2 - Windows 10 Forums
in which one guy said to use bcdboot X:\windows /s S:
(where X is the volume letter where window OS resides, and S: is where the newly created efi system partition just created)
whereas, another person said to use xcopy to copy the stuff from the old efi system partition to the newly created efi system partition
do they both work? which would you guys recommend? and furthermore, say i've properly managed to create this new efi system partition and delete the old one, is there even any way to reclaim that 100 MB that was used for the old efi system partition?
or should i use easyuefi? it seems to have the ability to move efi system partition, but without knowing whether it works or not and how reliable it is, i'm afraid to use it.
here is a picture showing window's Disk Management:
80.00 GB is what i allocated for archlinux
the 550 MB EFI system partition is the newly created
100 MB is the old EFI system partition
C: 151.75 GB is where my windows OS resides