Windows 10: How do I create boot configurations on a drive without it.

I need someone to either point me to a tutorial that actually works, or explain what I must do. I need to boot this drive with win10 already installed. I pulled the drive out of a machine with a dual boot windows 10 on both drives. The other drive is where the boot configurations are stored. So, naturally this drive does not have any boot configurations. It does not even have a boot folder. I tried to manually create a bcd store with bcdedit, but clearly I'm not doing this right because I keep getting system device cannot be found errors. In the recovery environment command line, diskpart does not list this drive as 0, nor does it list the win10 volume as 0. I don't know if that matters. Anyway, there has got to be a process for this. Can someone please let me know what it is? The BIOS is set to legacy boot, MBR, not UEFI. There is no boot or recovery partition on this drive, since that was handled by the other drive. If there is a way without creating them, that would be preferable. Thank you. I know a few of you will want to tell me bootrec, but it's more than just that.

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is there any demand for a system configurator?

Processor(V) <--drop down arrow
-AMD(V)
--Socket(V)
---AM2(V)
----List of cpu's
---939(V)
----List of CPU's
-Intel(V)
--Socket(V)
---775(V)
----List of cpu's
---771(V)
----List of CPU's


etc etc.

 

boot configuration data file does not contain a valid OS entry

The March 1 KB update is the culprit. Same thing happened with my old PC. Did what you have suggested here and it was solved.

 

Help! Failure trying to create a recovery drive in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I understand the inconvenience caused to you while creating the recovery drive on Widows 10 with error: "We can't create the recovery drive. A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive.", we will help you with this issue.

This issue might have occurred because of the recovery partition is not created during Windows setup, and will be unavailable for Windows to access and use for the purposes of copying recovery files to a CD or USB, resulting in the error above.

To fix the problem explained above, it is necessary to copy the appropriate files from the Windows 10 DVD to your PC, so that Windows can access and use them to create the recovery drive. Then, the recovery agent is configured with the new path to the setup
files and the creation can proceed.

Refer: How
to download official Windows 10 ISO files

Follow the below steps:

• Copy the contents of the Windows DVD to a folder on your C:\ drive.
• Launch an elevated command prompt window by typing in “cmd” in the search menu, and then pressing + + .
• Type in the following to re-configure Windows to point to the correct setup files location:
  

• reagentc /disable
• reagentc /setosimage /path C:\Win10\
• reagentc /enable

4. Verify the commands worked by typing in the following:

• reagentc /info

Later, I suggest you to try creating the recovery drive as suggested in the Microsoft article and check if it helps.

Creating a recovery drive

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue for further assistance.