HD won't mount after deleting contents of Desktop folder ?

Hello,

The title is a bit misleading.   I'll try to keep it short and to the point. 

Have a laptop ( Windows 10 OS ) with blue screen syndrome due to some touch screen issue.  The SATA drive would not boot in regular mode because of this "tabtip.exe" error problem which started off with the occasional blue screen and then finally culminated in the HD would not boot at all UNLESS is SAFE MODE. 
 

I removed the HD and successfully mounted it using my linux machine in order to collect the important files in case the OS was unrepairable.  I did a "cut" and "paste" on all the files within the  ...Users/username/Desktop folder.  ( I should not have "cut" them .. I suppose ).     In any case, a few of the files within a folder failed to copy for a reason I can't recall and I "skipped" those.  

After that operation, the drive was no longer able to be mounted by linux or the original laptop it was in.   

I can not understand what file or folder could have been in that Desktop folder such that the removal of it caused such a problem.  I can't seem to re-mount that drive no matter what I do.   

Any and all advice is appreciated. 

Linux / Chrome 113.0.0.0