I have a Samsung Notebook with a 1TB drive. It has Windows 10 installed alongside a Linux Distro.
All my data resides on the Windows Partition,which forces me to disable "Fast Startup", so Linux can read the partition.
The problem with this is that it makes Windows take forever to boot, So I decided to start fresh: Completely format my HD, reinstall Windows, reinstall Linux and create a data partition, so all my data will be centralized in a single place, accessible by both OSes
But the question is: Should I Format my EFI partition?
Looking around tells me two things :
- Formatting the EFI partiton WILL brick a computer, to the point it won't even POST(Link 1,Link 2)
- Formatting the EFI partition WILL NOT brick the computer, instead it just won't be able to boot to anything, requiring a OS (like Windows) to create the EFI partition(Link 1, Link 2)
So, is formatting the EFI partition safe, or should I just delete all partitions and leave the EFI one untouched during the reinstall?