What to do with Microsoft.00x folders?

[AGH1965]

When a Boot Menu item and the corresponding Windows partition are both deleted with BIU, then BIU leaves the no longer used Microsoft.00x on the EFI system partition. When fiddling around with BIU, this causes the number of no longer used Microsoft.00x folders to grow rapidly. What shall I do with them? Can I delete them? If I delete them, shall the others then be renumbered to prevent gaps in the numbering?

[TeraByte Support]

You can delete the ones you don't need.

On 12/15/2019 7:34 AM, AGH1965 wrote:
> When a Boot Menu item and the corresponding Windows partition are both deleted with BIU, then BIU leaves the no longer used Microsoft.00x on the EFI system partition. When fiddling around with BIU, this causes the number of no longer used Microsoft.00x folders to grow rapidly. What shall I do with them? Can I delete them? If I delete them, shall the others then be renumbered to prevent gaps in the numbering?
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[AGH1965]

Oops, I overestimated myself. I don't know how I can delete them. Is there an easy way to do that?

[Brian K]

You can use Scripting to "Remove Directory".

Or you can use the TeraByte Explorer script to delete Microsoft.00x

[AGH1965]

Thanks Brian, but I'm afraid I need a little bit more explanation.

[Brian K]

OK, use this. In BIU click Scripting

cd \efi
rd microsoft.00x /s

(Answer A to the question about removing the directory and sub-dirs)

[AGH1965]

Thanks Brian. The /s is what I was looking for. I only remembered that you had to use deltree instead of rd for deleting non-empty directories in MS-DOS...