This started with Windows Image Backup in Windows 10 throwing a "The backup failed. New bad clusters were found on the source volume. These clusters were ...

If you encounter the Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS error in Windows, use these effective fixes.

While creating a system image on Windows 11/10 PC, if you get Windows Backup failed to get an exclusive lock on the EFI system partition error, here is how to fix it.