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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 GA-Z68X-UD4-B3.
Re-seated all hardware and ram, beep is still long.
Here is what I think the issue was.
My original SSD failed, corrupting the part of the drive where the MBR lives.
When the new SSD was cloned from the original, it migrated the bad MBR.
I did a win 10 refresh to no effect.
A rebuild of the bcd, fixmbr and fixboot worked on the new ssd, but not permanently and would only boot once, then I'd have to do it again just to get win 10 to boot each time...
...until after I disabled fast boot in the bios, then Windows booted up consistently.
I'm not 100% sure why it only boots with fast boot disabled, but it boots, and quick too. 19 seconds from beep to desktop.
When I decide to do a clean install, I'll let you all know if the thing boots with a normal beep, and with fast boot enables... otherwise it works well at the moment, and I will leave it as such.
Thanks for all the replies!