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Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC

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"felix" <me@nothere.invalid> wrote in message 
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> I put the c drive from a win 10 PC into a USB external box on a win 7 PC 
> to read some files of it. first I got a message saying 'loading driver 
> software' then the USB box light started flashing away furiously and it 
> was obvious that the drive was being accessed significantly. at this stage 
> it wasn't showing up in windows explorer. the drive kept thrashing away 
> and I couldn't eject it with 'safely remove hardware'. it eventually 
> showed up in Explorer but clicking on it didn't show the contents.

It didn’t show any contents because you need to take ownership with
a drive that has been written on on another drive by a different user.

> I was getting concerned about what might be going on, so I shut down the 
> PC using the normal shutdown procedure. I put the drive back into the PC 
> it belongs to and now win10 is trying to fix it. I don't see what I did 
> wrong by simply putting it into another PC to be read.

Nothing wrong with doing that.

> is that a no-no with windoze10 disks?

Nope.

> both disks are formatted NTFS

And that is the reason you need to take ownership of the files when
you put that drive in a different machine with a different user.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753659(v=ws.11).aspx 

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    Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-01-25 07:13 +1100
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