Windows 10: My MSconfig boot tab is empty, and I can't fix it

About a month ago I bought a new 1TB NVME SSD, I cloned my old SSD onto the new NVME. Then I found out my EFI partition was on another drive (I don't know why). Because that drive had to be taken out as well, I cloned that EFI Partition to a new FAT32 partition on my NVME SSD and all was good.

Or so I thought...
Because of some problems with windows update I wanted to boot into safe mode. It turns out, I can't boot into safe mode. My msconfig boot tab is empty. If I hold shift when rebooting I come into a menu where the only option is "UEFI Firmware settings" Or "Turn off your PC". If I put in the recovery USB and click "startup repair", it tells me it couldn't repair and I can either shutdown or go back to the advanced options.
Besides the lack of boot options, it does boot fine.

based on my search here is another couple of things I tried that had no effect:
If I run bcdedit /enum in CMD I get "The boot configuration data store could not be opened."
and bcdboot C:\Windows gives me "Failure when attempting to copy boot files."

If I boot with Macrium and click fix windows boot problems, it wants me to select an "active partition" and it doesn't list my C-drive. Only 2 others (disk 2 and 3 from the image below).

I'm not really sure where to go next... Does anyone have any ideas? I'm really not looking forward to a completely new install....

Additional info:
windows 10 64-bit
Bios UEFI
NVME is formatted in GPT (not sure what the former was)

Because I put in my NVME SSD last, my disks look a bit weirdly ordered in disk management:



:)

 

No listing under MSConfig Boot tab / not sure what to do


I recently upgraded my SSD from a 500 GB drive to a 1 TB drive. I cloned the drive with Arocnis True Image 2016. It seemed to work, but then it wouldn't boot up. I followed some instructions I found on another forum about how to repair the bcd (booting up using the Windows 10 USB stick and going into the command prompt and running several commands), and that worked. The computer now boots up. However, I have now noticed that there is no listing under the MSConfig boot tab. Also, I don't know if System Restore is working - under C:, it says (Missing). See attached screenshots. I am not sure what to do now. I need to boot into Safe Mode, but I can't select Safe Mode in MSConfig because there is nothing listed under the Boot tab. It seems likely that whatever I did at the command prompt has messed things up. Anyone have any idea how I would fix this?

 

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No listing under MSConfig Boot tab / not sure what to do


Before I saw your last post, I decided to try a "trick" -- I created a backup of my C drive using Acronis, but only of the partition with Windows on it, not the System Reserved area. I then formatted the drive and did a fresh install of Windows 10. I was able to boot into Windows, so I ran Macrium. Some problems seem to be fixed, but not all. MSConfig now shows one item under the Boot tab, I think the C drive now has the correct partitions (though not sure since I'm not an expert on this) but I still have 6 Windows Boot Manager entries in my UEFI BIOS. See below screenshots.








Notice how under the two other partitions for Disk 0, it is blank for File System and Name. Is this the way it's supposed to be?





If the other two problems are now solved, how much should I worry about these extra entries of Windows Boot Manager? Preferably I'd like their to be only one (assuming there is only supposed to be one), but I don't know enough about the BIOS to know if it's anything worth worrying about.

If you think I should try, any ideas on how to fix it? Someone mentioned trying an app called EasyBCD, but I haven't yet because I know nothing about it.