Please understand this worked for me, if you don't feel comfortable trying any of these steps stop now.
You could place the drive into another computer by means of a USB dock backup your files, then reinstall windows 10 once backup complete or clone the drive so that you have a backup in case this doesn't work, that's what I did.
I used Acronis backup and created a back up of my 3.5" drive onto an SSD drive, yes the lost partition was still lost/deleted but once fixed I could apply the same method to the SSD drive.
So you have lost or accidentally deleted the system reserved partition, in my case D drive.
This happened to a work college's PC, he accidentally deleted what he though was an unneeded partition.
You will need to download the correct version of the windows 10 recovery tool either 32bit or 64 bit for your system.
To check your system click on windows explorer
Right click on This PC, Then Properties
As you can see this is a 64bit system
or
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691209
In my case I was able to create a recovery USB drive from another PC running windows 10 64bit.
Click Next
The system will check to see the size of the USB drive needed.
WARNING It will delete everything on the drive
Insert an empty USB drive, in my case it needed to be at least 8Gb, then click next
Start the computer and press Delete to enter the bios, each computer is different so check motherboard specs to see you what key you need to press to enter the bios
Computer manufacturer boot menu : https://craftedflash.com/info/how-boot-computer-from-usb-flash-drive
Once in the bios select boot tab, disable fast boot.
Change the order so that the USB drive is at the top first boot
Press F10 to save and exit
To recover or repair the drive I tried Startup repair in the Advanced Options but that was unsuccessful
In the advanced options I choose Command Prompt
Then typed the following
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
exit
Reboot and remove USB drive
Booted fine as this is the first boot it will take some time, you may need to restart a few times.
I then applied the same method to the SSD drive and rebuilt the MBR bothe drives worked fine.
In the advanced options I choose Command Prompt
Then typed the following
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
exit
Reboot and remove USB drive
Booted fine as this is the first boot it will take some time, you may need to restart a few times.
I then applied the same method to the SSD drive and rebuilt the MBR bothe drives worked fine.
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