EFI System Partition
PCs now have UEFI firmware rather than the BIOS they once had. Hard disk
drives in systems with UEFI firmware may have an "EFI System Partition",
which will be fairly small, e.g. about 100 MB, which may be a third partition
on drives that may have an operating system, such as Microsoft Windows on
one partition and system recovey software on another partition. The
EFI partition must be formatted with the FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32 file
system. The partiton will store boot loader code for operating systems, such as
Windows, installed on other partitions and may also store device drivers
needed by the firmware.
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Windows Server 2012 - Folders located on the system hard drive
After I set up a Windows Server 2012 Essentials server, I noticed the dashboard
indicated two alerts were pending. One of them was just to reboot the server
since updates had been recently installed that required a reboot, but the
other alert was "One or more server folders are located on the system hard
drive". The folders referenced were as follows:
- Client Computer Backups
- Folder Redirection
- File History Backups
- Users
- Company
If you have a second internal drive or another partition on the primary
drive you can move the
folders with these steps.
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