What is the EFI Partition in Windows 10 and Should I Delete It? – Knowligent
What is the EFI Partition in Windows 10 and Should I Delete It?

What is the EFI Partition in Windows 10 and Should I Delete It?

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The short answer is no, and here's why

How to Delete EFI System Partition (ESP) on Windows 10

Have you ever been poking around in your computer and found partitions or disk volumes that you didn’t know existed? Or noticed that a Windows installation creates two partitions; a large one and a smaller one? The small one is either 100MB or 600MB. What’s that? Do you need it? Well, it’s the EFI partition, and the short answer is yes, you do.

We say Windows 10, but EFI partitions were already part of previous versions of Windows, as well as other operating systems, such as Linux and macOS.

EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface. As the name suggests, EFI connects the operating system to the firmware of the hardware components in a computer. Think of firmware as the brains of each piece of hardware. The extensible part of the name tells us that EFI can be modified for different situations.