Startup Issues No operating system found - Windows won't even start to boot - MBR/BIOS Updated January 13 2025
This is for MBR/BIOS installs of Windows. Use this guide if windows won't start booting at all, and the partition table is using MBR. If your disk is in GPT mode, use a different guide.

Windows 10 MBR Partition Layout:
Windows 10 Partition Layout
BIOS/MBR: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-biosmbr-based-hard-drive-partitions
1: SYSTEM - 100MB+ NTFS
2: Windows - Main Partition - 20GB+
3: Recovery - 300MB+ (I recommend 550MB)

Use diskpart, delete the first System partition. Recreate it using this. You may get an error after the rebuildbcd command, ignore it. You may need to change the C:\windows drive letter if it is currently mapped as a different drive.

Copy to Clipboard create partition primary size=100 format quick fs=ntfs label="System" assign letter=x active exit bcdboot c:\Windows /s x: /f ALL bootrec /ScanOs bootrec /RebuildBcd bootrec /FixMbr bootrec /FixBoot

Reboot and test





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