It seems difficult using the built-in system tools on either Windows 10 or Ubuntu to initialize a disk as GPT with an EFI system partition.

Fix Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition (ESP), Error code 0x8078011E on Windows 10.

The bootkit, dubbed ESPecter by ESET researchers who found it, achieves persistence on the EFI System Partition (ESP) of compromised devices by loading its own unsigned driver to bypass Windows ...

Running an Intel machine, you can't install a system onto an Apple partition scheme disk, but if you start with a disk on which an Intel-appropriate system somehow has been installed, even if it ...

Are you sure the drive was completely unpartitioned? Disk Utility won't show you the EFI System Partition, which is what's used for firmware updates.

Intel Security has released a tool that allows users to check if their computer's low-level system firmware has been modified and contains unauthorized code.

Intel Security, soon to be rebranded as McAfee again, released on Wednesday a scanner that can identify hidden EFI firmware rootkits.

Now, creating the system image backup on the old disk triggers these two errors. Here, the problem was that the old drive still had those two partitions ( EFI System Partition and Recovery ...