Issue: default EFI fat32 partition 100MB ignored and another 100 MB fat32 made with /boot/efi

something odd happen when I switched in bios uefi/legacy or secure boot on/off option and it seems this made some odd effect with partitions EFI as it’s now ignored while other is made with Manjaro boot file but without Windows boot file…and I can’t access to default EFI also via removable USBmedia Windows 10, EFI partition is mounted but I can’t access to that partition or it’s maybe empty ? is locked somethow so I don’t know what is inside

the thing is that now each boot ends with boot popup ‘no efi found’ and I need to use live USB I did via ventoy so can in that way by ‘F4’ option to run any boot files found and ventoy menu finds only that other partition made where are two paths /boot/efi and /Manjaro but no any Windows path
screen from KDE partition manager

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1014          
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 97E83A9D-F2F7-48A1-8CDC-F686416D5C89
First LBA: 34
Last LBA: 1000215182
Alternative LBA: 1000215215
Partition entries LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128

Device             Start        End   Sectors Type-UUID                            UUID                                 Name Attrs
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048     206847    204800 C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B ADE04855-9DCD-4374-AFDC-7CB3339A47B7 EFI system partition
                                                                                                                             
/dev/nvme0n1p2    206848     239615     32768 E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE D64AB0BB-88BA-4BF0-B089-7A4181676F3A Microsoft reserved partition
                                                                                                                             
/dev/nvme0n1p3    239616  690917375 690677760 EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 09E5AC5C-9BA3-4733-8596-2E2CFB0DAF70 Basic data partition
                                                                                                                             
/dev/nvme0n1p4 998117376 1000214527   2097152 DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC 582575A0-AEDF-4436-87C9-A4D833AB9DA7 Basic data partition
                                                                                                                             RequiredPartition
/dev/nvme0n1p5 690917376  691122175    204800 EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 0CCC73EF-A276-4F1A-BC87-8FF0BBA6F3F7      
/dev/nvme0n1p6 691122176  998117375 306995200 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 A26B1954-4AA6-438B-B1D4-839B4E5674C4      

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 94FEBC47-693F-41C8-BE6C-87F2F7EA3258
First LBA: 34
Last LBA: 1953525134
Alternative LBA: 1953525167
Partition entries LBA: 2
Allocated partition entries: 128

Device     Start        End    Sectors Type-UUID                            UUID                                 Name Attrs
/dev/sda1   2048 1953523711 1953521664 EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 B59646A6-3363-4DD8-891B-1831E3E3B6F1 Basic data partition
                                                                                                                      


Disk /dev/loop0: 32.27 MiB, 33841152 bytes, 66096 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop1: 161.41 MiB, 169254912 bytes, 330576 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop2: 55.45 MiB, 58142720 bytes, 113560 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop3: 99.15 MiB, 103964672 bytes, 203056 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop4: 62.09 MiB, 65105920 bytes, 127160 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop5: 162.87 MiB, 170778624 bytes, 333552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop6: 99.21 MiB, 104030208 bytes, 203184 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop7: 32.27 MiB, 33841152 bytes, 66096 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop8: 55.46 MiB, 58159104 bytes, 113592 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop9: 32.97 MiB, 34570240 bytes, 67520 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/loop10: 64.77 MiB, 67915776 bytes, 132648 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/sdb: 57.28 GiB, 61505273856 bytes, 120127488 sectors
Disk model: Ultra           
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x9f5fec27

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors Id Type               Start-C/H/S  End-C/H/S Attrs
/dev/sdb1  *         2048 120061951 120059904  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT        0/32/33 332/130/17    80
/dev/sdb2       120061952 120127487     65536 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)  332/130/18 333/150/33

how to approach this issue and go back to using that default EFI, dual boot Windows/Linux ?

solved by reattaching /dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI flagged as ESP partition to load content from that partition and additionally unlocking and removing doubled /dev/nvme0n1p5 partition with the same 100MB size mounted as /boot/efi which should be as /dev/nvme0n1p1

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