Windows 10: USB drive displays different file contents on different PCs

Hi

I have a weird USD drive issue. The drive is a 1TB Western Digital My Passport drive that I use to move files between two PCs running Windows 10 64 bit version.

There is a typical example

PC 1 delete existing files, copy some new files to the USB drive, safely eject USB drive, shutdown PC. Unplug USD drive.

PC 2. plug in USB drive, power up PC. File explorer view of the USB Drive shows the last contents seen on this PC, i.e. the old contents, not the new files copied back over on PC 1. Cannot access any of the folders or files, not surprised as they do not exist on the drive.

Trouble shooting I have tried:

1) At first I though this was a corrupt USB drive so I purhcased a new one. This has exactly the same problem so I don't think it is a pyhysical USB drive issue.

2) Run Error Check on PC 2 for file system errors. This always reports issues, run fix and things go very wrong. I usually get permission errors and cannot access any folders on the drive

3) Format USB drive, tried both deep format and quick format. This fixes the access errors but only works on the PC I do the format on. Safely eject and move to the other PC and the issues reoccur.

4) Tried a different USB port on PC2, this worked the first time I plugged in the drive. But all other attempts to use that port cause the problem to reoccur.

As I always cleanly eject the USB drive before unplugging I am at a loss why this happens. Any ideas how the second PC is remembering the previous contents? This seems to be the route cause of the issue.

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I/O device error happened because your PC in not able perform an Input/ Output actions, such as reading or copying the data when you are trying to access the drive. This may occur due to different type of reasons; it may be due to damaged or defective hardware
device or your pc requires an update for issues that may conflict USB external hard drive. To isolate the reason behind and find a fix for this, we recommend that you follow the troubleshooting steps below:



Check if the problem is with the USB or with the PC.

• If you have different PC, try connecting your USB device there to see if you’ll encounter the same error or if you do not have an access to different PC, try connecting a different USB device to see if the issue persists.
  
• If you encounter the same error while connecting the USB device to a different PC or if other USB devices works on your PC without the error, this may have been that your External USB device is corrupted or damaged.
  
• In that case, you will need to reformat that USB device in order to use it again. Please do note that formatting your USB device will remove all of its contents.

If you encounter the same error when you connect a different USB device on your PC or if your USB device works fine with different PC, we recommend that you follow the troubleshooting steps in this

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