WafflesASAP
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Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I've spent hours Googling and searching through these forums and can't find anyone in a similar situation to learn from their experience.
I'm hoping EasyBCD can help me in this situation, but before I get into that, let me explain my current setup.
I'm running Windows 10 on a machine with 3 SSDs:
Without going into too much detail about why I have multiple EFI System Partitions on my boot drive (and even one on the old WD Blue drive, where my Windows 10 install used to be before I transferred it to the first 980 Pro drive), let me explain my problem:
Somehow I have FOUR EFI System Partitions on my boot drive. The system boots fine, but I'd like to identify which of the 4 EFI System partitions is actually being used by my system so I can delete the others and extend my main C: drive partition to absorb that (eventually) unallocated space.
EasyBCD tells me that Windows' Boot Manager is being loaded from "partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume8," though when I run DISKPART in an elevated Command Prompt and list volumes on my boot drive, volume 8 does NOT have the label "SYSTEM" or "BOOT," and the "Info" column for that volume says "Hidden" (instead of "System" as I'd expect it to).
Here's a screenshot of EasyBCD:
Here's a screenshot of the Disk Management GUI:
Here's a screenshot of the command prompt window showing volume 8 with no label and "Hidden" displayed under the "Info" column:
Can anyone help me figure out WHICH EFI system partition is ACTUALLY the active one so I can delete the others and extend my boot drive to absorb that unallocated space?
Regardless of whether or not you can help, THANK YOU for your time. I'm incredibly grateful to you!
I'm hoping EasyBCD can help me in this situation, but before I get into that, let me explain my current setup.
I'm running Windows 10 on a machine with 3 SSDs:
- 1 SATA WD Blue (1TB) - this is primarily a backup drive
- 1 NVMe Samsung 980 Pro (2TB) - where Windows 10 is installed
- 1 NVMe Samsung 980 Pro (2TB) - where I install games and non-critical programs
Without going into too much detail about why I have multiple EFI System Partitions on my boot drive (and even one on the old WD Blue drive, where my Windows 10 install used to be before I transferred it to the first 980 Pro drive), let me explain my problem:
Somehow I have FOUR EFI System Partitions on my boot drive. The system boots fine, but I'd like to identify which of the 4 EFI System partitions is actually being used by my system so I can delete the others and extend my main C: drive partition to absorb that (eventually) unallocated space.
EasyBCD tells me that Windows' Boot Manager is being loaded from "partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume8," though when I run DISKPART in an elevated Command Prompt and list volumes on my boot drive, volume 8 does NOT have the label "SYSTEM" or "BOOT," and the "Info" column for that volume says "Hidden" (instead of "System" as I'd expect it to).
Here's a screenshot of EasyBCD:
Here's a screenshot of the Disk Management GUI:
Here's a screenshot of the command prompt window showing volume 8 with no label and "Hidden" displayed under the "Info" column:
Can anyone help me figure out WHICH EFI system partition is ACTUALLY the active one so I can delete the others and extend my boot drive to absorb that unallocated space?
Regardless of whether or not you can help, THANK YOU for your time. I'm incredibly grateful to you!