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Re: EFI system partition problem.....

From BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: EFI system partition problem.....
Date 2011-07-29 10:43 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 7/29/2011 3:43 AM, agodin10@hotmail.com wrote:
> hi....im using windows 7 ultimate on ibm x61....i want to clone my
> 80gb hd to 160gb hd......problem is when i look at my hd in disk
> management i see my C partition with the os and files on... next there
> is a 32mb EFI partition......when i clone the C partition to my 160gb
> hd i get the 74.50 gb NTFS C partition and the EFI
> partition.......then when i go into disk management i cant expand the
> C partition volume because the EFI partition is blocking it....how do
> i move or delete this EFI partition...i tried in diskpart but cant see
> the EFI partition.......thanks for any help.....

The EFI partition is managed by the OS. You shouldn't be messing around 
with it. And if you do manage to delete it, the OS will just put it back 
again anyway.

-- 
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

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EFI system partition problem..... agodin10@hotmail.com - 2011-07-29 01:43 -0700
  Re: EFI system partition problem..... BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-07-29 10:43 -0500
    Re: EFI system partition problem..... wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-07-30 07:58 +0000

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