"What does that mean?" you may ask. Welp, I just installed a new SSD in my PC. Plopped it in my secondary M.2 slot, cloned my OS, swapped drives, and all was right in the world.
I formatted my old drive, but the Windows EFI partition remained. Sure, it's only 100 MB, but I WANT that 100 MB, and I didn't like seeing it unused in Disk Manager. You can't easily delete it in Disk Manager however, and for good reason! If some jackass starts deleting shit in a daze, they can wreck their OS (in the sense of making it un-bootable).
So I turn to the trusty diskpart tool in command prompt, select the shitty little 100 MB partition, and delete it.
Except I didn't delete it... I deleted my new SSD's MBR partition. FML. I keep an incremental clone of my main drive on a NAS drive for safety's-sake, so it's an easy fix, but holy hell do you NOT want to run an OS off a NAS drive. I forgot how incredibly, painfully slow hard drives were!
So long story short, don't do stupid shit like this when you're half asleep, and always keep a backup. I'll be waiting here for a good 2 hours before this garbage is done cloning again. I just needed to rant, enjoy your night.
I formatted my old drive, but the Windows EFI partition remained. Sure, it's only 100 MB, but I WANT that 100 MB, and I didn't like seeing it unused in Disk Manager. You can't easily delete it in Disk Manager however, and for good reason! If some jackass starts deleting shit in a daze, they can wreck their OS (in the sense of making it un-bootable).
So I turn to the trusty diskpart tool in command prompt, select the shitty little 100 MB partition, and delete it.
Except I didn't delete it... I deleted my new SSD's MBR partition. FML. I keep an incremental clone of my main drive on a NAS drive for safety's-sake, so it's an easy fix, but holy hell do you NOT want to run an OS off a NAS drive. I forgot how incredibly, painfully slow hard drives were!
So long story short, don't do stupid shit like this when you're half asleep, and always keep a backup. I'll be waiting here for a good 2 hours before this garbage is done cloning again. I just needed to rant, enjoy your night.
