BIOS - ESP Space Not Enough

[Rizan]

I use a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 pro 16ARH7, it's around 2.5 years in use but for the past couple of months. I am unable to update my bios as it prompts the message ESP Space Not Enough. I tried every possible solution available on the internet, but nothing helped. I also went on to install fresh copy of windows, but nothing helped again. So, after all these, I am here to find possible solutions.

[whispous]

Okay, where did you get the BIOS updated file from, and what are the steps you're taking to run the update?

[OhioYJ]

How big is your ESP partition? 

[Thomas53]

You need a partitioning tool, I recommend gparted, to enlarge the ESP partition to 300Mb.

[Pusbucket]

6 hours ago, Rizan said:

I use a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 pro 16ARH7, it's around 2.5 years in use but for the past couple of months. I am unable to update my bios as it prompts the message ESP Space Not Enough. I tried every possible solution available on the internet, but nothing helped. I also went on to install fresh copy of windows, but nothing helped again. So, after all these, I am here to find possible solutions.

 

 

You say you tried every option you found. What did you try?

And doing a fresh install should have corrected it, unless you didn't completely wipe the ENTIRE drive to blank unallocated space.

All you need to do increase the size of the EFI partition by at least 100 megabytes if you have the additional space.

 

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-1xx-3xx-5xx-7xx-Edge-LaVie-Z-Flex-Laptops/16ARH7-BIOS-update-failure-ESP-Disk-space-not-enough/m-p/5223056

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4238769/how-can-i-safely-increase-the-esp-partition?forum=windows-all&referrer=answers