Windows 8.1 using already updated EFI System Partition

Hi all

I am about to install Windows 8.1 on my machine. The thing is, I already have Arch linux installed in UEFI mode (discs are focused on the TPG etc.). My setup is as follows:

-SSH drive with ESP (EFI System Partition) + the Linux partition

-2 discs of data, not important now

-1 500 GB HARD drive formatted in NTFS for Windows.

I want to achieve is to have Windows Installer on 500GB HDD, but use 8.1 pre-existing ESP partition on SSD drive rather than create a new one.

How would I do that?

Hello

Thanks for the quick response. Fortunately, last night found an answer to my question. To illustrate the question I had and the answer I found, I will dwelve on the topic a bit.

First of all, I was about to install Windows 8.1 on workstation with Arch Linux already installed and hoped to learn before making the actual plant, while I wouldn't fix the mistakes I would have done. My configuration is:

  1. 64 GB SSD drive GPT formatted with two partitions: 512MB, FAT32 formatted the EFI System Partition. This partition serves as my partition/boot, containing the code of EFI GRUB and Linux kernel + iniramfs and of 60 GB + Linux ext4 partition.
  2. 500 GB drive HARD, drive GPT formatted, empty, I was about to install Windows on.

Now, I learned that Windows 8.1 creates two partitions on a disk: Partition EFI system for its bootstrapper code + other things and another partition. My goal was to convince Windows to use the ESP partition on disk (1) rather than creating its own, so all codes start, regardless of the operating system resides on the same partition for: 1 win some acceleration (that's the SSD drive) and 2. Facilitate the configuration of the boot loader GRUB or Windows for dual-boot.

I found no option to identify the ESP for Windows partition to use, that's why I posted my question.

Nevertheless, I proceeded to the installation. Windows has detected all readers, figured out that there is already an ESP partition in the system, but not on the disk, he was about to be installed and has not created any other ESP partition on the HARD disk.

Now, I have exactly the setup I needed: 8.1 for Windows installed on the HARD disk drive, but he left all the startup code on the partition on the SSD drive. I have configured the GRUB to call code .efi Windows

It turns out Windows did the right thing automatically without the need for extra configuration, and my question is a bit premature.

Thanks again for your quick response and have a beautiful day!

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