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Always backup the EFI to a USB drive first and ensure you can boot off it so you have a plan B if something goes wrong.
To copy the EFI you need
1) to mount the EFI partition from your old NVMe
2) copy the folder to your desktop and unmount the EFI partition
3) mount the USB EFI partition and copy the folder to the USB
4) Boot to ensure the USB is working
5) mount the EFI partition from your NVMe and copy the folder from your desktop.
6) Test that all works fine and keep the USB safe
To copy the EFI you need
1) to mount the EFI partition from your old NVMe
2) copy the folder to your desktop and unmount the EFI partition
3) mount the USB EFI partition and copy the folder to the USB
4) Boot to ensure the USB is working
5) mount the EFI partition from your NVMe and copy the folder from your desktop.
6) Test that all works fine and keep the USB safe
Create EFI partition
Can anyone tell me how to do something as basic as creating an EFI partition on an SSD which currently does not have one. (I want to make the SSD my system drive, but cannot create a USB installer that works - I've tried over and over and they are bootable but when I try to install the OS I...
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