I have two operating system running, windows 10 pro and home. I have the windows 10 pro on ssd and windows 10 home on hdd. The problem is that the EFI is on the hhd. I clonned the windows 10 home from ssd to hdd. Then installed the windows 10 pro on ssd. How can i move the efi from hhd to ssd? In the picture, Disk 1 is SSD and Disk 2 is HDD
Use MiniTool Partition Wizard to delete the 16MB MSR partition in front of D: drive in your screenshot (Disk 1). Use the resize partition option to move the front of the D: drive partition over so you get about 500 mb of free, unallocated space at the beginning of disk 1. Then pick up at step 2 here:
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Before starting at step 2 above the user entered diskpart and selected disk 0. (In diskpart, drives start at 0, not at 1. You can use the list disk command in diskpart to see the drives.)
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Just for you, I deleted my EFI system partition and recreated it. Here's where I started from:
I've got 120 MB unallocated space at the front of my SSD. C: drive is Windows 10 Pro. E: drive is Windows 10 Home.
I ran the following commands:
NOTE: Make sure in the disk part commands you are selecting the correct disks and partitions! Don't just go by my numbers. Especially when you are selecting the new system partition before assigning the drive letter - it might not be partition 3 on your system.
I ended up with this layout:Code:Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. x:\Windows\system32>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.14393.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: MININT-PEDG16 DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 447 GB 123 MB * Disk 1 Online 931 GB 2048 KB * Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> create part efi size=100 DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. DISKPART> format quick fs=fat32 label="System" 100 percent completed DiskPart successfully formatted the volume. DISKPART> create part msr size=16 DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. DISKPART> list part Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 3 System 100 MB 1024 KB * Partition 4 Reserved 16 MB 101 MB Partition 1 Primary 446 GB 120 MB Partition 2 Recovery 450 MB 446 GB DISKPART> select part 3 Partition 3 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> assign letter=T DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart... x:\Windows\system32>bootrec /fixboot The operation completed successfully. x:\Windows\system32>bcdboot c:\Windows /s T: /f ALL Boot files successfully created. x:\Windows\system32>bcdboot e:\Windows /addlast Boot files successfully created. x:\Windows\system32>
Note, my MSR is only 16mb in size because of my small SSD.
Rebooted the computer into UEFI setup, reset the boot order to boot from the new EFI partition (Windows Boot Manager in UEFI).
I like to use EasyBCD to set up my boot menu the way I like:
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Thank you. :) But how about if i want to create an EFI for my windows pro?
You use the same procedure. Paying attention to the note I included:
NOTE: Make sure in the disk part commands you are selecting the correct disks and partitions! Don't just go by my numbers.
Question: Why are you running Windows 10 Pro and Home? Windows Pro is Windows Home with a couple of added features like Bitlocker encryption, networking tools and remote desktop capability.
But how did you do this part?
x:\Windows\system32>bootrec /fixboot
The operation completed successfully.
x:\Windows\system32>bcdboot c:\Windows /s T: /f ALL
Boot files successfully created.
x:\Windows\system32>bcdboot e:\Windows /addlast
Boot files successfully created.
x:\Windows\system32>
I am newbie. did you start the command at boot? Can i remove the hdd before the operation? Thank you for helping, gladly appreciated.
You can do it with both drives installed. Use your EASEUS Partition Master program to delete the 16MB "other" partition at the front of Disk 1, the SSD. Then move the beginning of the Windows (C: drive) partition to the right a little bit so that you end up with about 120MB empty space at the front of the drive. Once you get the 120MB empty space at the front of the drive, then you can press Win+X keys to open a command list and select Command Prompt (Admin). In the Command Prompt (Admin) window is where you enter the rest of the commands listed.
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