Windows 10: Windows 10 showed old partition before it was overwritten

I have had a weird situation come up with a hard drive. Has anyone had Windows 10 Show them an old partition that was written over? Here is what I did.

Computer A runs Windows 10 os on a small SSD and has a 2TB HDD with some files, 1 big NTFS partition for data storage. I shut it down and take out 2TB and put it in Computer B.

Computer B runs Windows 7 on a small SSD + has a 1TB HDD with 2 NTFS partitions, 1 for work data and 1 for play. I clone the 1TB HDD to 2TB HDD using Macrium Reflect then shutdown. I didn't format the 1TB HDD because when cloning it overwrites partitions. Before taking out 2TB, I realized i forgot to verify the data. Start up computer B again and make SFV file of data on both partition of 1TB and verify successfully both partitions on the 2TB drive. Shutdown and take out 2TB drive.

Computer A now has the 2TB drive, I boot up and login. I check the 2TB HDD and for some reason it shows the 1 big partition again and the old data before cloning. I try and open an old .txt file, the file doesn't open and then Windows says something like it discovered an error and needs to restart to run chkdisk. I got ahead to restart and chkdisk runs and repairs the hard drive. Once in Windows 10 the hard drives shows the 2 cloned partitions and everything seems fine. BUT i wasn't comfortable.

I take the SFV files from Computer B and verify the hard drive, about 1% of the files are corrupt. SMARTDISK says SMART tests are all good nothing failing. I am now doing scandisk and at 30% no bad sectors so far. So what do you think happened? I am going to have to clone again to get my data back but I don't want to get data loss again. What else should I do?

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