Results of refresh:
Win 10 still does not boot unless I rebuild Bcd.
Solution:
disabled 'fast boot' in bios.

Everything works fine now, but I get a weird 3 second beep when I boot up my...

Thanks for the fast reply kbird!
That is the exact procedure I used, but unfortunately I still get the occasional fail to boot with the new drive, and have to repeat that procedure to get it...

I recently replaced my 4 year old ssd due to a corrupt MBR, windows would consistently fail to boot until I rebuilt the bcd, and repaired the mbr.
Once I got it booted, I cloned the drive to my new...