Help! Non bootable partition?

[Paintrain84]

I cloned a hard drive I have here, it had a copy of Windows 10 on it with all my data, but when i try to boot to the drive it shows theres no operating system after the clone. I checked disk mgmt and it says the drive is " Healthy (Active, Primary Partition)" but thats it. Theres no Boot, Page File, Crash Dump on there, but I know this HDD had a fully functioning copy of Windows on it with all kinds of data. How do i get this thing to boot up properly without erasing everything off of it?

 

[rgd1101]

what did you use to clone? did you clone all the partitions or just that 1 partition ?

 

[Paintrain84]

what did you use to clone? did you clone all the partitions or just that 1 partition ?

I used Macrium Reflect which has always worked very well in the past. There was two partitions on it, I cloned both the recovery and the primary partition. Is there some weird possibility the partition I cloned wasn't partitioned either? Which would be very weird but I suppose is possible.

 

[rgd1101]

what did you use to clone? did you clone all the partitions or just that 1 partition ?

I used Macrium Reflect which has always worked very well in the past. There was two partitions on it, I cloned both the recovery and the primary partition. Is there some weird possibility the partition I cloned wasn't partitioned either? Which would be very weird but I suppose is possible.

should have a boot partition too. did you have a hdd install?

 

[Paintrain84]

what did you use to clone? did you clone all the partitions or just that 1 partition ?

I used Macrium Reflect which has always worked very well in the past. There was two partitions on it, I cloned both the recovery and the primary partition. Is there some weird possibility the partition I cloned wasn't partitioned either? Which would be very weird but I suppose is possible.

should have a boot partition too. did you have a hdd install?

It has windows on it with all the user files and programs, just not set as a bootable partition for some reason I have no idea why. It was the only HDD in the PC.

 

[Paintrain84]

Im just not sure what to do next as I dont want to lose any of the data and programs that are on the HD, its healthy, just lacking what it needs to boot. I wish I could just ADD something to it to make it boot into the OS it has on it.

 

[rgd1101]

missing a boot partition, it a separate partition than the windows partition.

 

[Paintrain84]

So the question is, how do i add one?

 

[rgd1101]

you don't. go back to your old drive and see if there is one.

 

[Paintrain84]

Neither drive has one, its the weirdest thing.

 

[rgd1101]

it is a laptop, desktop? prebuild?

 

[Paintrain84]

It's a desktop, the HDD is from a Dell and im trying to put it into a new Lenovo. I usually build all my own computers but im doing this for someone.