Lordbuzzkill Author

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How to remove the EFI boot option?

I had created a new high sierra partition on my mac and then deleted it. But since then when i press option on boot up, along with my mac os partition there is a EFI boot option.

I don't know what it is and want to know if there is a way to get rid of it as I am planning to install windows through bootcamp and don't want anything messing it up.

MacBook Pro 15", OS X 10.11

Posted on Feb 24, 2019 12:07 AM

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Feb 24, 2019 11:53 AM in response to Lordbuzzkill

Might try this...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/121458/how-do-i-keep-the-recovery-hd-and-efi-partitions-from-automatically-mounting-on

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6475907

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Feb 24, 2019 2:12 AM in response to Lordbuzzkill

FWIW, the EFI partition is part of every Mac drive. As far as why it's shows up in the startup manager I don't know.

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Lordbuzzkill Author

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Feb 24, 2019 2:28 AM in response to dialabrain

Will that be a problem when i install windows through bootcamp ?

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Feb 24, 2019 2:51 AM in response to Lordbuzzkill

Since I don't know what you did to get the EFI partition to show in the startup manager I don't know what might be affected. Maybe someone else will.

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Lordbuzzkill Author

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Feb 24, 2019 2:57 AM in response to dialabrain

No worries. It popped up once i deleted my high sierra partition though.

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