How do I remove an EFI System partition from a drive in Windows 7?
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I have an external HD which used to be my TimeMachine drive. I got a different drive for that, so I want the original drive back as an external on my Windows box, but it has this random 200 MB partition labeled as EFI System Partition. How do I get rid of this?
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On the command prompt type diskpart and answer to any possible UAC prompt. On the new diskpart prompt, type list disk. Note the Disk ### column. Type, select disk ### (with being the disk you wish to delete. Usually the disk with partition 0 with a …
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