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Windows On ARM laptops with EMMC

Similar to #3 but worse.

Those devices have the boot chain on the same EMMC as the OS, akin to android devices. Altering any partition (except windows or efi esp) on those may result in an unrecoverable brick.

Example partition table on Acer Aspire 1
NAME          SIZE LABEL     PARTLABEL                    MOUNTP
mmcblk1      58.2G                                        
├─mmcblk1p1     2M           modemst1                     
├─mmcblk1p2     2M           modemst2                     
├─mmcblk1p3     1M           fsc                          
├─mmcblk1p4     2M           fsg                          
├─mmcblk1p5     1M           DPP                          
├─mmcblk1p6     1M           SMBIOS                       
├─mmcblk1p7     1M           SSD                          
├─mmcblk1p8     1M           CDT                          
├─mmcblk1p9     4M           XBL                          
├─mmcblk1p10    1M           XBL_CONFIG                   
├─mmcblk1p11    1M           limits                       
├─mmcblk1p12    1M           DDR                          
├─mmcblk1p13    1M           SECDATA                      
├─mmcblk1p14    1M           APDP                         
├─mmcblk1p15   16M           LogFS                        
├─mmcblk1p16    1M           AOP                          
├─mmcblk1p17    4M           TZ                           
├─mmcblk1p18    1M           DEVCFG                       
├─mmcblk1p19    1M           HYP                          
├─mmcblk1p20    1M           QUP                          
├─mmcblk1p21    2M           TZAPPS                       
├─mmcblk1p22    1M           ToolsFv                      
├─mmcblk1p23    1M           ImageFv                      
├─mmcblk1p24   16M           ADSP                         
├─mmcblk1p25    1M           multiimgoem                  
├─mmcblk1p26    2M           PLAT                         
├─mmcblk1p27    1M           SYSFW_VERSION                
├─mmcblk1p28    1M           EnterpriseFv                 
├─mmcblk1p29   70M           UpdateCapsule                
├─mmcblk1p30  120M           NHLOS                        
├─mmcblk1p31    1M           BACKUP_DPP                   
├─mmcblk1p32    1M           BACKUP_SMBIOS                
├─mmcblk1p33    4M           BACKUP_XBL                   
├─mmcblk1p34    1M           BACKUP_XBL_CONFIG            
├─mmcblk1p35    1M           BACKUP_AOP                   
├─mmcblk1p36    4M           BACKUP_TZ                    
├─mmcblk1p37    1M           BACKUP_DEVCFG                
├─mmcblk1p38    1M           BACKUP_HYP                   
├─mmcblk1p39    1M           BACKUP_QUP                   
├─mmcblk1p40    2M           BACKUP_TZAPPS                
├─mmcblk1p41    1M           BACKUP_ToolsFv               
├─mmcblk1p42    1M           BACKUP_ImageFv               
├─mmcblk1p43   16M           BACKUP_ADSP                  
├─mmcblk1p44    2M           BACKUP_PLAT                  
├─mmcblk1p45    1M           BACKUP_multiimgoem           
├─mmcblk1p46    1M           BACKUP_EnterpriseFv          
├─mmcblk1p47  260M ESP       EFI system partition         
├─mmcblk1p48   16M           Microsoft reserved partition 
├─mmcblk1p49 55.8G Acer      Basic data partition         
└─mmcblk1p50 1023M Recovery  Basic data partition         

This can probably just be a corner case for android devices install path, the issue is there so it's not missed.

Edited by jenneron
To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information