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Can I delete the 'EFI System Partition' without harming other data on the drive?
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I have three external HDDs in a USB enclosure. After a recent upgrade to Windows 7, during which these three drives were actually installed inside the PC tower, two of the three drives now have a 200 MB EFI partition, and the two drives do not show up as usable drives under either Windows 7 or Snow…
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I am assuming that you originally formatted these drives on an Intel Mac (OS X) system. Rather than paraphrasing what I've heard in other places I'll simply quote from the Wikipedia article for EFI System partition. On Apple–Intel architecture Macin…
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