Setup exactly the same as what the OP has, 2 Windows and 2 EFI System Partitions on physical disk. No VM, no VHDX then come back and prove me wrong.


LOL, It's easy to make a statement like...

@NavyLCDR
I wonder where did you get the info that you can have 2 EFI System partitions on the same disk ? your advice given to the OP will never work. In post #27 you clearly stated that your setup...

@Shenmue is life
save the lines below to a BAT file, eg. List.bat:
@echo off
set URL="J:\_PowerShell\URLLinks"
for /f "tokens=2 delims=^=^(" %%a in ('type %URL%\*.url 2^>nul ^| find "URL=http"')...

Went back to look at his post and you are correct, it was missing. However, one should not advise to add anything based on an invalid shortcut. His property page only has 3 tabs, one is the Web...

Berton,
Yours is created correctly and if you open notepad.exe and drop the shortcut into it, you should see the content as shown:364259

The option is not missing, It just greyed out implying that the content of the shortcut is not recognized by file explorer.

@raywood
Looking at the property page you posted in the other thread,...

Opening the URL link file name as a parameter to firefox will not work. Need to open the URL link inside the file

[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.youtube.com/

The short scripts will work...

Example: Running bcdedit.exe command. This will require Admin privilege, so the shortcut must be set to run as Admin.
cd /d %~dp0
start /b %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\bcdedit.exe > %temp%\~foo.txt & exit...

Not really sure what you did but if you boot up the Macrium Rescue USB. You should get a screen similar to the screen below and the icon for command prompt is there.
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If you boot up Windows 10 Installation Media, hold down SHIFT + F10 will definitely give the Admin Command Prompt.


Did not know that you also have Macrium Rescue disk. You could also use this to...

OK. So Windows prevent you from messing with this partition while online.

Do you have Windows Installation USB ??? If so, disconnect everything except disk 0 containing Windows then boot Windows...

This will assign letter A to partition 2 on disk 0.
Open Admin command prompt and type:
diskpart
select disk 0
select par 2
assign letter=A
exit

This will disable the Recovery Environment,...

Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10 will not work since GRUB is now taking over the Boot Process.

Post a screen shot of disk management so we'll know how to rebuild the the Windows Boot...

Megahertz
I have some questions on what you posted above.OK, so one Recovery partition is created when first installed Windows on Sata disk, how does the 2nd active Recovery Partition for NVMe SSD...

@br1anstorm
The golden rule is when messing around with partitions, you should always make a backup image of the current disk.
With that said, I recommend using Macrium Reflect to make a backup and...

If you read my answer. I did not say this partition is empty and yes, there's still data in this partition so that Windows can roll back if something gone wrong during upgrade. And don't forget that...

Based on the screen shot.

D: => Partition 1 (sda1) is currently not used at all.
Q: => Partition 2 (sda2) contains Windows 7 OS from manufacturer that the PC was installed with.
C: =>...

I think you are confusing between "System Reserved" and MSR reserved, they are 2 different things. A MBR disk can not have MSR reserved partition, period.
So there's no difference if it's Win 7 or...

This is an MBR disk, not GPT. There's no 16MB unformatted hidden.

@Pacman23
This is normal. This is the new partition layout for 20H2 which Windows will create a separate Recovery Partition. The...

Real temp is a portable program. Just unzip and run.

That's exactly what it does if you follow my post, run Real Temp with the Administrative privilege. Already tested and it worked fine in startup.

SpeechRuntime.exe is an essential piece of Windows software related to Cortana. I have the exact same thing as you do and just add to the exclude list. I am not sure about you but during the...

For testing purpose. Download and extract real temp to desktop.
For Windows 10, security is a little bit tighter compared to previous W7 or W8.
Copy and paste the content below and save it as a...

From Admin Command, Type:
mountvol A: /s
dir /A /S A:\
If there's a loader.efi type:
del /F A:\path\loader.efi ====> Replace path
if there's a ubuntu folder, type:
RD /S /Q A:\EFI\ubuntu...

No, You did right. By default GRUB always shows the Boot Menu. I forgot to mention that you need to configure GRUB so that it will hide the Menu.
You can follow this link to hide it: How to Hide...