No need for any software to delete EFI partition. CMD is enough for it. 1. First run CMD as administrator 2. Then type "dickpart" 3. Then type "list disk"to list all the storage devices connected to your system 4. Now select a disk by typing "select disk x" where the EFI partition is situated. (here x is the disk number, replce x with put the number of disk you want to select) 5. Now type "list partition" to list all the partition of the selected disc you selected before 6. Now type "select partition x" for to select the EFI partition(hair X is the partition number and check disc management to find the EFI partition number, replace x with it) 7. Now type "delete partition override" to finally delete the EFI partition 8. Then "exit" to exit cmd
You left out of the video some very important steps to make the EFI partition you just crated, usable (BIOS will recognize as boot option). Before exiting diskpart you have to assign a letter to the EFI partition with the command assign letter=s Then you can exit diskpart. After that, type the command bcdboot C:\windows /s S: Done, now your EFI is usable.
@@agauerm kkkkkkkk nem fudendo. Fui formatar o segundo SSD que estava com um Windows que eu não usava mais e nem me toquei que a EFI dos dois era no mesmo disco do velho.
Thank you! I tried this a few years ago and it didn't work since this step was left out, I'm glad I rechecked this video because your solution helped resolve my issue.
Pro tip: You may benefit by watching at 1.25x or 1.50x playback speed digest all this great information faster. I like watching with closed captioning, a.k.a. subtitles, enabled that way I don't miss anything. The auto-generated subtitles aren't always 100% correct prone to errors and will often misinterpret the narator; it's still very helpful most of the time when used to understand a certain word or words due to the narators dialect.
I wouldn't question it in fear of offending windows 😂 sometimes these things work on hopes and prayers. Reminds me of that resistance in the BBC Micro circuit board which emulates an engineer's finger touching the circuit, without which the Micro wouldn't work and nobody knows why.
@@AOMEITech oh now I get how shrinking works You make the partition smaller by that certain amount and unallocates that space you shrank I thought it was making the partition be that amount (reduce the partition to 500 mb) but I was wrong But still just in case I made a backup with aomei backupper
@@AOMEITech I have tried it again and it doesn't let me shrink partition saying that the disk may be corrupt and it asks me to run chkdsk but the disk doesn't have a problem, it can run windows perfectly but with the help of another bootable disk, I don't know what problem it has
The diskpart command 'del part override' allows you to delete EFI System Partitions. Also, I noticed another problem - in trying to format my partition, I got the error: 'Diskpart has encountered an error. The parameter is incorrect.' The solution to that was to shut down anything that could have a handle on the disk - in my case Windows Disk Management & Partition Wizard. If you're still getting that error, you could try diskpart from the Windows Recovery Environment or boot disk. I wanted to make the EFI System Partition the first partition on a GPT disk, and set it to 260MB in size, then make the second partition a 128MB MSR Partition. When I cleaned the disk and convert it to GPT, diskpart creates a 16MB MSR partition, and everything else goes after it. So I had to delete the 16MB MSR partition first.
@@AOMEITech My usb stick is recognised by windows partition manager, when i use this programme, it doesn't even recognise my usb stick, can't find anything, not even the Efi partition.
Long time ago I lost all my life and family pictures and videos and memories because of using the AOMEI partition manager. It didnt do well a very simple resize and move operation in a partition and completely made all of my disk destroyed by transfering wrong data, wrong blocks, and incorrectly partitioning. I wouldnt recommend ever use an AOMEI product.
First of all, I want to say thank you very much for trusting our software and for using our software, and secondly, we also feel really sad about the loss of your data which tells us never to put eggs in only one box. It is very important to make multiple backups and keep them in different places. AOMEI has always been adhering to making users' data more secure. What I want to tell you is that simply adjusting the partition is absolutely impossible to cause data loss. Please recall what other operations you did during that time? Because I can assure you that we have never had user feedback that data was lost just by resizing partitions. Finally, when your data is lost, please use data recovery software to try to recover it the first time. And if you have any questions, please feel free to contact our support team by email. Partition Assistant is a powerful tool, hopefully, you can still use any other powerful functions, or use AOMEI Backupper to back up your important files as a routine.
@@George.Gadgets Dear George, we are sad about this situation, but it's really inappropriate to say it must be the problem with the Partition Assistant. I know of course you are talking about "resize/move partitions", I also know you resized and moved your partitions, I only made it short to say "resize partitions" that's because usually it's a combination function, so obviously I didn't read you wrong. Secondly, I can promise you AOMEI has not read or written wrongly either because this function itself will not cause any data loss unless you moved the system partition/system reserved partition (it is a common sense not to move the system partition at will unless you are an expert) or there are bad sectors on the disk(which you don't even notice). As I said we don't have any user feedback about data loss due to resizing/moving partitions. There may be many reasons for your data loss, it depends on your specific environment and the state of your disk partitions. But you didn't provide us with all the information, we have no idea about what you did besides Partition Assistant either. Finally, now that your data has been lost, the most urgent thing to do now is to restore the data as possible as you can and back up your other important data so that this doesn't happen again.
I AM considering wiping the OS drive from one of my PCs and resizing the EFI System Partition with the “clean” command I got an ISSUE with OneDrive Personal Vault getting an ERROR CODE 0x80070057 when trying to open my PV I’m thinking my PV ISSUE Is because of OS drive partitions and the Personal Vault uses BitLocker to encrypt data at rest I got the PC IN QUESTION BACKED UP and installation media ready
Brother I need immediate help, I followed all of u r steps but my laptop doesn't started, I'm in serious trouble please help me, what should I do now, reply soon bro
Eem, whoever typed the words into the AI should check their spelling, it should say "Shift and F10", but it clearly has the 'f' missing and says a rude word, lol
No need for any software to delete EFI partition. CMD is enough for it.
1. First run CMD as administrator
2. Then type "dickpart"
3. Then type "list disk"to list all the storage devices connected to your system
4. Now select a disk by typing "select disk x" where the EFI partition is situated. (here x is the disk number, replce x with put the number of disk you want to select)
5. Now type "list partition" to list all the partition of the selected disc you selected before
6. Now type "select partition x" for to select the EFI partition(hair X is the partition number and check disc management to find the EFI partition number, replace x with it)
7. Now type "delete partition override" to finally delete the EFI partition
8. Then "exit" to exit cmd
thank you so much man
DICKPART?????
diskpart, not dick lol
I tried typing ''diCKpart'' as you spelled... now my pc wont stop giggling...
You left out of the video some very important steps to make the EFI partition you just crated, usable (BIOS will recognize as boot option). Before exiting diskpart you have to assign a letter to the EFI partition with the command assign letter=s Then you can exit diskpart. After that, type the command bcdboot C:\windows /s S: Done, now your EFI is usable.
Bro, you are a life saver. Thank you sm
@@gvcvieira eh noix BR kkk
@@agauerm kkkkkkkk nem fudendo. Fui formatar o segundo SSD que estava com um Windows que eu não usava mais e nem me toquei que a EFI dos dois era no mesmo disco do velho.
I needed this comment before I use their tool to clone the whole efi partition from old drive!! Luckily it worked though haha
Thank you! I tried this a few years ago and it didn't work since this step was left out, I'm glad I rechecked this video because your solution helped resolve my issue.
Pro tip: You may benefit by watching at 1.25x or 1.50x playback speed digest all this great information faster. I like watching with closed captioning, a.k.a. subtitles, enabled that way I don't miss anything. The auto-generated subtitles aren't always 100% correct prone to errors and will often misinterpret the narator; it's still very helpful most of the time when used to understand a certain word or words due to the narators dialect.
Agreed watching at 1x is unbearable. I do 1.25x or 1.5x for almost every how to video.
Saved me so much trouble! Thank you very much!
That's great to hear!
So, what is the leftover unallocated space used for?
I wouldn't question it in fear of offending windows 😂 sometimes these things work on hopes and prayers.
Reminds me of that resistance in the BBC Micro circuit board which emulates an engineer's finger touching the circuit, without which the Micro wouldn't work and nobody knows why.
is it needed to shrink a partition? I am somewhat scared of doing so, so I don't know if I can skip that step
You have to shrink to make an unallocated partition to make the ESP.
@@AOMEITech will I lose any data by doing so? I only have one partition and it's the main partition
@@Niseandryt No, you won't lose your data by doing this unless there's not too much space left on the partition then it is not suggested to shrink.
@@AOMEITech oh now I get how shrinking works
You make the partition smaller by that certain amount and unallocates that space you shrank
I thought it was making the partition be that amount (reduce the partition to 500 mb) but I was wrong
But still just in case I made a backup with aomei backupper
@@AOMEITech I have tried it again and it doesn't let me shrink partition saying that the disk may be corrupt and it asks me to run chkdsk
but the disk doesn't have a problem, it can run windows perfectly but with the help of another bootable disk, I don't know what problem it has
Thnx a lot... I have been searching for this video for 2 days .. but all were fake.. you solve my problem.. love you bro 🥰
why we have to make bootable image before we deleting efi partision?
Because without the EFI the PC will be unbootable.
@@AOMEITech even if in eksternal hardisk (non windows Drive)?
@@ronih6704 Not sure about that, but all our videos are based on Windows OS only.
where can i find and download default or any EFI partition for windows?
This video showed you the way to create it.
Thanks for explaining very nicely. But I must say please there was not need for the background music at all.
Thanks buddy... It was really helpful
The diskpart command 'del part override' allows you to delete EFI System Partitions.
Also, I noticed another problem - in trying to format my partition, I got the error: 'Diskpart has encountered an error. The parameter is incorrect.' The solution to that was to shut down anything that could have a handle on the disk - in my case Windows Disk Management & Partition Wizard. If you're still getting that error, you could try diskpart from the Windows Recovery Environment or boot disk.
I wanted to make the EFI System Partition the first partition on a GPT disk, and set it to 260MB in size, then make the second partition a 128MB MSR Partition. When I cleaned the disk and convert it to GPT, diskpart creates a 16MB MSR partition, and everything else goes after it. So I had to delete the 16MB MSR partition first.
No usable free extent could be found.
Please help. Already create 100mb free space from logical drive
www.diskpart.com/articles/no-usable-free-extent-could-not-be-found-0310.html
Em some bug here (msr and efi partition are only supported on gpt disks.Convert the selectef disk to gpt and try again)
Pls help
www.diskpart.com/articles/msr-efi-partitions-only-supported-on-gpt-disks-4348.html#:~:text=Most%20computers%20have%20support%20for,but%20the%20system%20reserved%20partition.
very good information, sir.
Great tutorial. I was lost and now my drive is UEFI emabled!
what do I do with the 300mb that is now unallocated?
You can leave it there, or allocate it in Disk Management.
I suddenly deleted my efi drive, how can I restore it (windows 11)
Then you can follow the steps in the video to create one.
@@AOMEITech My usb stick is recognised by windows partition manager, when i use this programme, it doesn't even recognise my usb stick, can't find anything, not even the Efi partition.
Long time ago I lost all my life and family pictures and videos and memories because of using the AOMEI partition manager. It didnt do well a very simple resize and move operation in a partition and completely made all of my disk destroyed by transfering wrong data, wrong blocks, and incorrectly partitioning. I wouldnt recommend ever use an AOMEI product.
First of all, I want to say thank you very much for trusting our software and for using our software, and secondly, we also feel really sad about the loss of your data which tells us never to put eggs in only one box. It is very important to make multiple backups and keep them in different places. AOMEI has always been adhering to making users' data more secure. What I want to tell you is that simply adjusting the partition is absolutely impossible to cause data loss. Please recall what other operations you did during that time? Because I can assure you that we have never had user feedback that data was lost just by resizing partitions. Finally, when your data is lost, please use data recovery software to try to recover it the first time. And if you have any questions, please feel free to contact our support team by email. Partition Assistant is a powerful tool, hopefully, you can still use any other powerful functions, or use AOMEI Backupper to back up your important files as a routine.
@@George.Gadgets Dear George, we are sad about this situation, but it's really inappropriate to say it must be the problem with the Partition Assistant. I know of course you are talking about "resize/move partitions", I also know you resized and moved your partitions, I only made it short to say "resize partitions" that's because usually it's a combination function, so obviously I didn't read you wrong. Secondly, I can promise you AOMEI has not read or written wrongly either because this function itself will not cause any data loss unless you moved the system partition/system reserved partition (it is a common sense not to move the system partition at will unless you are an expert) or there are bad sectors on the disk(which you don't even notice). As I said we don't have any user feedback about data loss due to resizing/moving partitions. There may be many reasons for your data loss, it depends on your specific environment and the state of your disk partitions. But you didn't provide us with all the information, we have no idea about what you did besides Partition Assistant either. Finally, now that your data has been lost, the most urgent thing to do now is to restore the data as possible as you can and back up your other important data so that this doesn't happen again.
You Can DELETE protected partitions - clean command does that but it also wipes out entire drive. so be careful :-)
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I AM considering wiping the OS drive from one of my PCs and resizing the EFI System Partition with the “clean” command
I got an ISSUE with OneDrive Personal Vault getting an ERROR CODE 0x80070057 when trying to open my PV
I’m thinking my PV ISSUE Is because of OS drive partitions and the Personal Vault uses BitLocker to encrypt data at rest
I got the PC IN QUESTION BACKED UP and installation media ready
Keep in mind guys after selecting disk, you have to select the right partition aswel (if there is multiple partitions)
You know I'd rather reinstall my entire windows and loose all my data
Gives an error :
"Diskpart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrected. See the system event log for more information."
www.diskpart.com/articles/diskpart-has-encountered-an-error-the-parameter-is-incorrect-0310.html
Very nice
Thanks..
Brother I need immediate help, I followed all of u r steps but my laptop doesn't started, I'm in serious trouble please help me, what should I do now, reply soon bro
Hi there, if you need immediate help please contact AOMEI support team via email.
Did you delete the EFI System Partition on your boot drive? If so, yeah, your laptop won't boot.
@@CH-tn3fn sir I recovered my laptop
Legend dude
Eem, whoever typed the words into the AI should check their spelling, it should say "Shift and F10", but it clearly has the 'f' missing and says a rude word, lol
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you make us pay 60 dollers to do that one single thing thats all i wanna do
Lies you can delete efi partitions without your software using the exact same thing you create them with. Only adding delete partition override
😡😤 ..on F*cking Windows, ..i need on Linux! ..u forget to separate by tags