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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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> On Wednesday, 25 Jan 2017 12:19 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>> felix <me@nothere.invalid> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> felix <me@nothere.invalid> wrote
>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>>> that's what I thought. so why did it screw up the drive? the original 
>>> computer can't boot from it, and and just goes in a loop from 
>>> 'Diagnosing your drive' to 'preparing to repair your drive' to 
>>> rebooting, over and over, without achieving anything
>>
>> Presumably you stuffed it when you were trying to
>> safely remove it when it took a while to scan the drive.
>
> but when I shut down the system windoze should have taken care of that and 
> disconnected it appropriately

Not when you shut down when its still trying to access it.

>> Did you ever get off your arse and make a repair drive
>> for that Win10 system ?  That should be able to fix it now.
>
> not for this one it was only a backup copy

So why do you care that the Win10 system can't see it anymore ?

>>>>> is that a no-no with windoze10 disks?
>>
>>>> Nope.
>>
>>> I've often put drives of all sorts into a USB box to read them. nothing 
>>> like this has ever happened before. all I can think of is it's because 
>>> it was a 'C' (boot) drive and windoze got 'confused'
>>
>> Nope, that’s fine. It was you trying to safely remove it before
>> it had finished scanning the drive that was the problem.
>>
>>>>> 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
>>
>>> but it never got to that stage where I could read the drive from the usb 
>>> box
>>
>> That doesn’t involve reading the drive, you have to take ownership to get 
>> that.
 

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    Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 06:43 +1100
      Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 08:30 +1100
        Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 15:57 +1100
          Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 19:41 +1100
          Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 20:19 +1100
    Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC Jeßus <j@j.net> - 2017-01-25 07:13 +1100
  Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 08:36 +1100
    Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 10:28 +1100
      Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 12:19 +1100
        Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 19:16 +1100
          Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 20:21 +1100
            Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2017-01-25 20:55 +1100
  Re: win10 disk connected to win7 PC Colin Horsley <horsley-spam@westnet.com.au> - 2017-01-26 19:28 +1100
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