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Dear all,

many thanks, I could reinstall a correct Windows-EFI Boot Partition after changing the letter to E: instead of C:.

I could find the correct partition name with the diskpart command: "list vol".
Then I have done an "exit" from the diskpart-tool, changed to E: and checked with "dir" if I ...

So, after 2 hours I gave it up to reinstall WIN ESP.
I followed the instructions I found on the internet, but I fail at the last step:
1) Boot with Win USB-Stick
2) Repair your Computer
3) Troubleshoot
4) Command prompt
5) diskpart
6) list disk
7) sel disk 1
8) list part
9) sel part 1 (Fat partition ...

Thank you very much for your help, I will try it this evening!
Best regards from tiny Luxembourg,
Marcel

With all three the MX Linux Boot menu appears, exactly as with the last one. I just booted from there my system...

..and yes, if I select the last entry, the MX Boot menu appears and I boot from my harddrive...

Hi had to reboot for answering your first question.
It looks like this:

====> EFI Bootloader <=====
boot @[fat] (hd1,2)/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
Boot @[fat] (hd3,2)/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
mx @[fat] (hd3,2)/EFI/mx23/grubx64.efi
mx23 @[fat] (hd3,2)/EFI/mx23/grubx64.efi
rootMX23 @[ext](hd3,5)/boot/grub/x86 ...

Good evening fehlix,

Here are the results of the commands:

a)
lsblk -f -o +PARTUUID:

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS PARTUUID
sda
├─sda1 ntfs Recovery FE2E65C92E657B91 560c699d-e32e-45bd-a10d-5bdd8cd56162
├─sda2 vfat FAT32 EC68-67B7 69.2M 27% /boot/efi 9054db71-437d-40c1 ...

I have done a new USB Boot stick with the Ventoy tool on another computer and I could successfully boot with that stick.
After booting with the MX LiveUSB stick I select Boot Rescue and then "Boot Rescue Menus".
Then I have the following options:
a. GRUB EFI bootloader
b. GRUB menus
c. Frugual menus ...

I don't know how to upload the pictures I took, so I will try to explain in more details.
1) Pressing F8 Key during start up:
An ugly Boot menu appeared with the following choices:
a. Windows Boot Manager: (P1: SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB)
b. MX Linux (P1: SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB)
c. MX23 (P1: SanDisk ...

Hi fehlix, i tried everything, I can go to the BIOS boot menu but it is impossible to boot Windows. I also tried to boot from a USB Stick but that didn't help.
At one point I got an error: Secure boot violation but I could change the setting in the BIOS to deactivate the secure boot and then the MX ...