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All hell breaks loose after connecting drive to a different PC
I was helping someone migrate from one computer to another. Because there was a lot of data and time was limited I pulled the hard drive from the old computer and hooked it up with a USB adapter to the new one. To copy the data I used Windows Explorer on the new computer and navigated to F:\Users\Mike. When I clicked the folder to open I had to click a button to grant me access to the folder.
After a while I could browse and copy everything I needed from F:\Users\Mike.
I put the drive back in its old system and it booted up fine and everything looked normal. But, a few hours after I left all hell broke loose. First Windows blanked the screen and displayed a message at the bottom saying "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete." with a little spinning dots icon above it. Then after a restart (or two) lots of other errors came up.
Dropbox error: "Couldn't start Dropbox. This is usually because of a permissions error. Storing your home folder on a network share can also cause an error"
Desktop: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder." (The user clicked Continue)
Acrobat Distiller: "Unable to create the temporary folder. Error -5 - Access is denied."
The background / wallpaper image is gone, desktop is black.
Windows Start Menu icon visible but doesn't respond to clicks.
There's lots of other little glitches. Earlier today I couldn't get to a command prompt from the Task Manager, but now I can so I'm running "sfc /scannow" to see if any of that helps.
I also tried reassigning permissions but ran into some errors there too.
And I tried logging in as a different user, but can't seem to accomplish that either.
I've removed drives to load data onto other computers many times in the past. Usually they're disposing of the old PC and not too worried about making it work again. But, as I recall I've been able to boot and run the drive in it's old PC with no real issues. Maybe it's something about Windows 10 that is different or maybe it's something else.
Thanks for any guidance!