Moved 2.5"ssd from old Intel NUC to new Intel Nuc, can't find docs/pics

So not sure if this is the right place after wading through all the options so here goes:  I moved a ssd from my old NUC that was on it's last legs (pwr supply).  It was windows 10 and I needed a new system as the hardware was too old to upgrade to WN11 and the pwr supply was on the blink anyways.

I installed two brand new SSD's in the new NUC and installed a new version of WN11 on one  (Linux mint on the other).  I got the new system up running both OS's w/o much trouble  (other than my old HP laser printer which is so old that HP doesn't support it anymore).

I took the old 2.5" ssd out of the failing nuc and connected it to the new system via usb-c.

1. wn11 recognizes it as drive F but show two identical F drives...?  why two F's?
2. I can open it via File explorer but I can't find any of my word docs.  Doing a search in the search box with drive F selected, all wn11 does is state :  "working on it" and never finds anything  (the little spinning circle spins itself senseless) and I finally give up and end the task  :)
3. If I boot my Linux ssd, I can find the docs and also pics too.

What am I doing wrong?  I can find docs using the linux OS but I can't in the OS that they originally were created in (windows/word)