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Understanding why Windows boot fails when EFI partition is moved

Situation I got a new computer with a HDD. I put SSDs in it and made RAID1, then started installing Windows Server 2022. I wanted to use SSDs and a HDD for data. I noticed the HDD already had some ...
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Repair EFI Bootloader?

I'm aware there are other topics on this subject, but i've tried the fixes to no avail, hence making this post. So I had a 1TB HDD with Windows 8.1 installed along with a partition with a recovery ...
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Deleted EFI partition Windows 8

I dual boot windows 7 and 8 and I accidently converted my windows 8 disk to dynamic while I was in 7. I used AOMEI Dynamic Disk Manager to turn it back to basic, but it removed my EFI partition. Now ...
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HDD EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT both EFI\MICROSOFT\RECOVERY empty

Hi i accidently formated some parts of partisions on my laptop. Now when it stats it's just a blank blue screen , not that basic with that sad face , but really empty blue screen. I dont know how to ...
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Mecerl laptop gives a an efi screen

when I turn on my latop, a screen apear, with the following message Efi shell version 2.40 (5.11) map: cannot find required map name please help
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Create a backup of the EFI partition on a USB

I have Ubuntu on M.2 disk y Windows 10 on un SSD I had install windows with ubuntu already installed, Windows has put its bootloader in the EFI partition of Ubuntu, since the M.2 disk is the first ...
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Windows 10 Recovery keeps showing on boot after fresh install of Zorin OS Lite

I've recently stumped on a problem after installing Zorin OS Lite 64bit on my old laptop which was running Windows 10 64bit. So basically after installing Zorin OS I was not able to boot into my OS ...
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I cloned my Windows on SSD and I can't delete the EFI partition on HDD

I recently bought a M.2 SSD (Seagate BarraCuda) and cloned my Windows 10 (build 2004) on it from my HDD using Macrium Reflect. All good with the process, I changed the boot order from the BIOS to put ...
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Is there any way to restore / rebuild EFI without using a Windows bootable DVD?

I've got a frustrating problem with some old hardware. Due to some awfully designed firmware which hasn't had a new release since 2016, I can't boot from a USB stick containing an unpartitioned UDF ...
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