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Mysterious filesystem corruption
I have an old desktop PC that I have used as a file server and Media Server. It has been running Win10 Pro since that came out years ago -- and there have been no issues with that.
Then after I had been using Win11 on my primary desktop for awhile, I decided to "upgrade" this desktop to Win11. Since the hardware was incompatible, I used RUFUS and their "hacks" to create the install media, installed Win11 -- and it has been working fine ever since. I used a new SSD for Win11, as I wished to retain Win10 on the old SSD.
Presuming that MS is going to close this Win11 loophole sometime in the future, I continue to keep the Win10Pro install updated every month, in case I need to swap SSDs because Win11 stops working.
Lately, in the last couple of weeks, I have run into a mysterious problem. When I swap SSDs and boot from the Win10 SSD, soon after using it, when I go into one of the 5 drive to open a folder, I get errors. Sometimes permission errors. Sometimes errors saying that Windows can't open the folder. So, I open MiniTool Partition Wizard and use the filesystem check option to run CHKDSK on the drive. That finds errors and fixes them. It find errors every single time, just not always on the same drive.
When I reboot using the Win11 SSD, same thing happens -- filesystem errors. I run MTPW and fix those.
If I stay in one OS and simply reboot it day after day, the errors don't return. This only happens when I swap SSDs.
I have other machines that run the same version of Win10 or Win11 and I don't get these filesystem errors on them.
I even went to the trouble to get a new SSD and install Win10Pro anew, presuming it was something with the existing install. But the same problems are happening with that install when I swap drives.
These are all different drives, some are SSDs, some are HDDs, and they are all different brands.
I don't know where to look to find out WHY this is happening.
Running Win10 Pro 19045.4239