Move EFI System Partition to another drive
- by Pincopallino
I had a Windows 8 installation on an HDD, using UEFI as boot. The HDD has the following GPT table:
DISKPART> list partition
Partizione ### Tipo Dim. Offset
--------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partizione 1 Ripristino 300 Mb 1024 Kb
Partizione 2 Sistema 100 Mb 301 Mb
Partizione 3 Riservato 128 Mb 401 Mb
Partizione 4 Primario 390 Gb 529 Mb
Partizione 5 Primario 540 Gb 390 Gb
(I apologize it's in Italian, but the translation is quite straightforward).
I recently bought an SSD drive, connected it and installed a fresh Windows 8. Now I have a working dual boot, but the UEFI partition is on the HDD instead of the SSD. Here's the SDD partition list:
Partizione ### Tipo Dim. Offset
--------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partizione 1 Riservato 128 Mb 1024 Kb
Partizione 2 Primario 221 Gb 129 Mb
I think that the best solution would be to have it on the SSD for two reasons:
the first is performance (I guess it would be a little be faster on the SSD due to the spin up time for an HDD, but I may be wrong about that)
second reason is consistency. As I plan to use only the Windows 8 installation that is located on the SSD and I'm probably going to erase the system partition on the HDD to use it as a data storage device, I think that the boot partition should be on the same drive as the OS.
So the question is how do I move the EFI System Partition to the SSD?
