I have one of those wd 10ezex. Done over 32,000 hours. Shows good no reallocated sectors

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Copy the entire sources folder (except the regular install.wim ) onto the the ntfs partition.

move your captured install.wim file into the ntfs partition sources folder.

Then setup.exe should...

yes just use windows explorer the same as you do with any other folder

if you have mounted the image, just browse to the offending documents and delete them. What is the purpose of using commands?

7-zip is one way to do it.

Has he got a tigerlake machine ? It is not listed in his specs.

Screenshot in post#1 shows both disks online. So they don't have the same disk sig.

Cloning can mean almost any type of copy nowadays. Most programs that offer clone will only copy used sectors by...

Does it show in pe disk management ?

Be interesting if they could make that stick. As far as I know there has been no UK departure from the principle of exhastion of the right of distribution on the first sale. At least in relation to a...

You can select to restore only the os partition if you like.

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you made the folder on R then pointed reagentc at the non existant folder on S

I think that was a mistype by Megahertz

look at the screenshots. They are before he started the partitioning operations. It is curious.

it says firmwarebootdevice disk 0 partition 1.

according to his diskmgmt screenshot that is the os partition. Look at post #1 and post #19

from post#1
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from post#19
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Interesting

from your post #19

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now

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You could run this and see what it says now :arrow: 408998

It outputs something like this. Obviously your disk mapping will be different from this example picture

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Curious about what...

It is best if the esp partition is at the beginning. Which would mean shrinking the os partition from the right to create space for the esp partition..

reg query showed firmware boot device as disk 0 partition 1.

Might be his bios reads ntfs partitions looking for efi folder. Mine does.

at admin cmd prompt type

bcdedit

(then press enter )

Boot means the partition you are currently booted into.

It does not tell you where the boot manager is. The boot manager should be on the System partition.

at administrator cmd prompt type ( or copy and paste the below line)

REG QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control /v FirmwareBootDevice

(then press enter)

let us know what it says, like...

It tells you you are booted into the operating sysetm on C. The boot manager should live on the system partition.

Where is the boot manager for your current os?

What is your goal ?

100mb is the minimum for an esp partition.

The last time I tried it took several minutes. Depends on your hardware.