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I removed OpenSuse from my PC (so now I have only Windows), but there are two EFI System partitions. Using Partdisk and bcdedit /enum all, I believe that Windows is using only the first EFI System partition (labeled Vol. A below, while the second partition was labeled Vol. B).

Before deleting the seemingly unuseful EFI partition, I would like to confirm if I can do it safely, mainly because I see that there is still some firmware on it:

Aplicativo de Firmware (101fffff)
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identificador           {e44d77c7-574c-11eb-b959-28cdc4f759f4}
device                  partition=B:
path                    \EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi
description             UEFI: IM2P33F3A NVMe ADATA 512GB, Partition 4
isolatedcontext         Yes

Here is possibly useful information from Diskpart and from bcdedit /enum all:

DISKPART> list vol

Volume No.  Ltr  Rótulo       Fs     Tipo        Tamanho  Status     Informações




Volume 0     C   OS           NTFS   Partição     177 GB  Íntegro    Iniciali


    

  • Volume 1     A   ESP          FAT32  Partição     150 MB  Íntegro    Sistema
Volume 2     B                FAT    Partição     500 MB  Íntegro    Oculto
Volume 3     D   WINRETOOLS   NTFS   Partição     990 MB  Íntegro    Oculto
Volume 4     E   Image        NTFS   Partição      17 GB  Íntegro    Oculto
Volume 5     F   DELLSUPPORT  NTFS   Partição    1321 MB  Íntegro    Oculto
    • 



C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /enum all

Gerenciador de Inicialização de Firmware
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identificador           {fwbootmgr}
displayorder            {bootmgr}
                        {273a1041-4467-11eb-b947-806e6f6e6963}
                        {e44d77c7-574c-11eb-b959-28cdc4f759f4}
timeout                 0

Gerenciador de Inicialização do Windows
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identificador           {bootmgr}
device                  partition=A:
path                    \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  pt-BR
inherit                 {globalsettings}
isolatedcontext         Yes
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {fc253ae3-3c57-11eb-a1ba-a4bb6d714fe3}
displayorder            {current}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30

Aplicativo de Firmware (101fffff)
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identificador           {273a1041-4467-11eb-b947-806e6f6e6963}
device                  partition=F:
path                    \EFI\opensuse\shim.efi
description             opensuse-secureboot
isolatedcontext         Yes

Aplicativo de Firmware (101fffff)
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identificador           {e44d77c7-574c-11eb-b959-28cdc4f759f4}
device                  partition=B:
path                    \EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi
description             UEFI: IM2P33F3A NVMe ADATA 512GB, Partition 4
isolatedcontext         Yes

(let me know if you need more output from bcdedit)

P.S. Despite the output of list vol above, vol. B is considered as EFI System partition by my partitioning manager and also by list part

danielqm
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Searching further, I finally concluded that I could not delete the partition B (the one holding \EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi) because partition A holds only Windows Boot Manager, which is accessed during boot in order to select the proper boot loader to execute (most relevant in case of dual-booted machines, for instance). The latter is actually the unit which is responsible for the boot of the OS, and in case of UEFI 64-bits Windows systems it turns to be usually the file \EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi that I was considering to delete! References: this askubuntu post, which points to this useful web page.

The solution to my problem was given by this answer to another Superuser question. That question is not identical to my problem, but the solution pointed to by that last link fits perfectly in my case as well.

danielqm
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