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  1. J

    Is an EFI partition needed on a non-boot SSD?

    So I ended up using Diskpart to get rid of the EFI partition, it worked without issue. I'm thinking the EFI partition was a remnant of when i was using the SSD as a boot drive on my intel MacPro...:hmm: Thanks for your help, all.
  2. J

    Is an EFI partition needed on a non-boot SSD?

    Not at my PC right now, but the disk showed up as 2 partitions in Disk Management after I installed it, and when I reformatted the disk, I still couldn't get rid of the EFI (when I right click on the EFI partition, all the menu is grey out, so I can't delete it). Could this be due to the fact...
  3. J

    Is an EFI partition needed on a non-boot SSD?

    Cool, thanks. I guess the best way to get rid of it is to use the command prompt "diskpart"? as in: list disk<enter> select disk ?<enter> ?=disk number the 200mb part is on clean<enter> or is there some other way to do it? Disk management won't let me do it.
  4. J

    Is an EFI partition needed on a non-boot SSD?

    I've done my share of searching, but nothing matches my situation... I just threw in my 80 gig Gen 1 Intel X25 into my Win 7 64 box, to be used as a data drive (it was previously used as a boot drive in my Mac Pro). After formatting, I noticed that it has an EFI partition of 200 megs...