Problem with command line

[Jim1cor13]

@Jim1cor13 - even after resizing the Recovery Partition (which I did), some, like myself found that the 100mB EFI (ESP) partition only had less than 2mB left... this scared me a bit.  I had no warnings but decided to up that partition by an additional 100mB (200mB total)... just in case.  I have no idea how it became so crowded in that 100mB DEFAULT space.

When looking inside the EFI partition, I see a growth, over the months (since the build July 2023) of BCD(<some sort of ID>) .TM.blf files and .regtrans-ms files.  This is an HP machine so I have no idea what that growth is.  I have made BCD changes over the months, but on no other machine have I seen these types of file growth.  I'm guessing I could get rid of most of them but I'd like to know what they are first 

Hi Froggie

Interesting. I resized my WinRe partition last year I think around July I think, up to 1.1GB in size. I used partition wizard at the time. It "worked" after that but when the MS update came out to update the winre.wim in that partition it failed. I knew there was more than enough size, so I disabled it using reagentc, then re-enabled it. That fixed my issue with the MS update in January, and it finally updated fine. I think it was because my disabling and then enabling gave it a new Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier.

I think that fixed the recovery partition and allowed it to be updated. I think there was a problem with it since I resized it for some reason, even though it "worked".

I just checked my EFI partition, I opened up a Hasleo disk/partition image and saw the EFI is 200MB with 172.2MB free. But I do not mess with BCDedit. I had no idea that it would affect the used space of your EFI like it did. Never heard of that, hopefully the dev's can explain it.

When I changed from MBR to UEFI GPT, I followed Macrium instructions, created the EFI partition, and the raw MSR partition of 128MB, not formatted, then restored my windows C part and the recovery part at the time. I had to shrink my OS part a bit to fit the old WinRe at the end of the drive.

Then ran the Macrium I think fix boot problems, and it found the windows installation and updated the boot manager. I went into BIOS and change to UEFI non-legacy, it will only boot UEFI drives. That seemed to be fine, but I had to mess with the recovery part after going to UEFI GPT, messing with it using reagentc and got that working.

First time I ever did something like that, I always used MBR disk. I'm glad I changed to UEFI, but MBR is fine, it is all I ever used up until I decided to change it.