So recently I purchased the well known Samsung Evo 850 250GB SSD with the very exciting thoughts of running my OS and some of my most performance heavy games on it, with great results. This, however, has not gone to plan. Following a guide I found online, I mounted a bootable install of Windows 8.1 onto an 8GB flash drive, disconnected my HDD and went about installing Windows onto my new drive. As I expected, startup was much, much faster, as was shutting down and restarting. However, it was now time to reconnect my HDD to bring everything back to normal... this did not happen. Upon reconnecting and booting up from my SSD with my new install of Windows, I was greeted with having to make a new user profile, which I didn't expect but was also not entirely surprised about. I went through all the steps you'd expect and I was up and all seemed good. Much to my disappointment, my desktop was now blank, a clean slate with just the App Store, Explorer and the recycle bin present, although with my previous background still looking great. After trying to access my HDD, I realised I now had no permissions to access my HDD. I couldn't run any programs, open any files without having to go through an extremely lagged loading bar after clicking "allow access" or something along those lines. Still nothing. I then decided to try booting back up from my HDD to see if anything wasnt quite right. Turns out, a lot wasn't right. Things seemed normal at first although Skype was now telling me it had insufficiant permissions to access its own files, Chrome wouldn't open, and neither did any program. About 5 minutes of trying to open Discord later, a message pops up telling me my Drive need to be repaired. Aha! This will fix it.
It didn't fix it. Low and behold, I sign into my usual Windows account as normal and I'm greeted with a black screen, void of any background or icons, an empty task bar at the bottom and only the recycle bin, where I put it. In the middle of my screen pops up with a menacing bleep a message along the lines of /C:/User/MyName/Desktop is unavailable. Access denied.
My own computer had now locked me out of my own account. I couldn't access any files, programs, any sort of prompt, system settings, I was even denied the ability to restore my system to an earlier point (of which I found out I have none apparently.) So now I am stuck with an empty, 250GB SSD with a version of windows installed on it and an unusable 2TB HDD with everything from the past 3 years of my computers life inaccessible.
If anyone could front any solution, this is Reddit after all, please do so.
With much hope and many thanks, Tom.
It didn't fix it. Low and behold, I sign into my usual Windows account as normal and I'm greeted with a black screen, void of any background or icons, an empty task bar at the bottom and only the recycle bin, where I put it. In the middle of my screen pops up with a menacing bleep a message along the lines of /C:/User/MyName/Desktop is unavailable. Access denied.
My own computer had now locked me out of my own account. I couldn't access any files, programs, any sort of prompt, system settings, I was even denied the ability to restore my system to an earlier point (of which I found out I have none apparently.) So now I am stuck with an empty, 250GB SSD with a version of windows installed on it and an unusable 2TB HDD with everything from the past 3 years of my computers life inaccessible.
If anyone could front any solution, this is Reddit after all, please do so.
With much hope and many thanks, Tom.
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