Weird link between an old HDD with Win 7 on it and the actual HDD with active win 7 on it
Hello, I've experienced today a weird "error", that I even do not know how to search for it. Let me explain:
I had win 7 (32bit) installed at job, and worked on it for more than a year. Two weeks ago I got a new HDD and decided to make a clean install, starting from scratch. So, i disconected the old HDD with Win 7 on it (removed all wires, sata etc), connected the new empty HDD (C:\) and performed the Win 7 full install (with same licence I had on the old one).
I shut down the computer, reconnect the old HDD (as G:\) - I needed it for the jobs archive on it - and enterd the bios, disabled the boot for it and started the comp with the new Win 7.
All went OK, and after a week I decided to free some space on the old HDD (G:\) so I made a dump folder on it which I was planning to delete and started to move everything from old HDD root into that folder. When I reached to the old users folder, there were some files I could not move, I clicked "try again" twice with no succes and sudenly my desktop blanked and all icons dissapeared from it. I recieved some message about "system files" and when I accesed (C:\) My Computer, in Users - on my new HDD with the actual running Win 7 everything was gone... How is it possible to move some old win 7 files from an HDD (G:\) that was not in the system when I installed a new Win 7 on other HDD (C:\), AND WIN 7 to start moving his own files?
I had some luck in a restore point made a week ago and managed to repair Win 7.
I researched the problem and did not find anything. I did not made any hard links or similar and I do not understand how files and folders became jammed between old HDD with Win7 and the new one? Both, with all files, were installed and had real files, with no shortcuts.
Can anyone help me? Can anyone explain what happened? How can I empty the old HDD without affecting this weird connection between independent files?
Thank you, Max
Hello, I've experienced today a weird "error", that I even do not know how to search for it. Let me explain:
I had win 7 (32bit) installed at job, and worked on it for more than a year. Two weeks ago I got a new HDD and decided to make a clean install, starting from scratch. So, i disconected the old HDD with Win 7 on it (removed all wires, sata etc), connected the new empty HDD (C:\) and performed the Win 7 full install (with same licence I had on the old one).
I shut down the computer, reconnect the old HDD (as G:\) - I needed it for the jobs archive on it - and enterd the bios, disabled the boot for it and started the comp with the new Win 7.
All went OK, and after a week I decided to free some space on the old HDD (G:\) so I made a dump folder on it which I was planning to delete and started to move everything from old HDD root into that folder. When I reached to the old users folder, there were some files I could not move, I clicked "try again" twice with no succes and sudenly my desktop blanked and all icons dissapeared from it. I recieved some message about "system files" and when I accesed (C:\) My Computer, in Users - on my new HDD with the actual running Win 7 everything was gone... How is it possible to move some old win 7 files from an HDD (G:\) that was not in the system when I installed a new Win 7 on other HDD (C:\), AND WIN 7 to start moving his own files?
I had some luck in a restore point made a week ago and managed to repair Win 7.
I researched the problem and did not find anything. I did not made any hard links or similar and I do not understand how files and folders became jammed between old HDD with Win7 and the new one? Both, with all files, were installed and had real files, with no shortcuts.
Can anyone help me? Can anyone explain what happened? How can I empty the old HDD without affecting this weird connection between independent files?
Thank you, Max
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