Connected a drive which caused clock desync and a mess of net problems

last night i decided to bring over my 1tb samsung sata drive to my new pc with windows 7. i honestly don't know how or why or if this caused the clock desync but it's the only thing that preceded the issues. my pc has a drive slot with this tray thing in the front. allowing me to plop the 1tb drive into a tray, slide it in and connect. at first it wouldnt slide all the way in and reach the sata power/data slots. i had to take off the cases cover to spot this. i pushed it further in once i noticed the issue and locked the little door thing it has. once finished a very fast message about raid came up but i could never look at it long enough. although i didn't touch it. when windows booted i noticed some strange stuff. a lot of icons from the lower right hand corner, near clock time, seemed missing and invisible? by invisible i mean they took up space but did nothing when i clicked on this ghost spot. i ignored it for now and went on with my business. i changed my network card to static from dhcp as well. i dont know if this made this worse or not. this is when i noticed a lot of internet connectivity issues. every browser that i tried using to access google or other specific sites said their certificates were bad news. i finally noticed a problem with my calander. the time was correct but it was flung into octoboer 2013 or 2012... my memory is being fuzzy now. i fixed this and regained some internet capabilities. however games that run with flash or over the net have been plagued with issues of not connecting correctly. i've tried restarting a few times and resyncing the time with the net. i've checked my time and date against the clock websites for my region. things should be back to normal, no?
i've done nothing to windows itself or moved the paged file to the separate drive. this 1tb drive is merely a backup drive for data like movies, document files, document scans, any games, and 2 backups i made of my old pc which had xp home. its maybe 6 years old i guess. i brought it over from my vista machine that sits in the living room. is there something i can do? this is so frustrating. i think i'll remove the drive just to see if this the solution but i'd like to get all of your thoughts before trying anything as of now. thanks for any help!
i removed the drive in question but stuff still isn't working as it did before adding it ;/

 

Hi Dnst3, and welcome to Computer Help Forums

I would suggest that now you have removed the drive from your newer machine, that you run System Restore. Choose a date and time that precedes when you first added the 1GB drive to the newer machine.

To open System Restore...Start Orb/button > Control Panel > Recovery > Open System Restore

Please let us know if this action sorts out/returns your newer machine to how it was before.

As for the 1GB drive...I would suggest that if your older machine still works, that you reinstall the drive in that machine and using your resident AV protection, scan the drive for viruses. If possible I would also install Malwarebytes Anti-malware on this machine and scan for malware. Link below.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

Note that it is the free version of MBAM that you need.

Please carry out the above and then post back here with the results.

 

Hi and Welcome to Computer Help Forums, Can I just clarify a couple of things you mention?

What did you fix? the internet connectivity? or the Calendar? and can you remember what you did to fix it?

as daft as it might seem, they are both connected, the time and date are or should be set to update from the Microsoft web site, because your Microsoft update's won't work. if they are not synchronised.

so if you still have internet connectivity issues, and your Calendar and time can't sync with Microsoft were going to get a whole load of issues.

 

LOL the fun of forums ,Frank posted while I was typing I would ignore my previous post and follow franks advice.

 

i'm sorry i didnt mean to to put GB. it's a TB drive. but i have some bad news for myself. there are no restore points prior to the 24th of January. so i'm fracked? i dont know... to fix most of the connectivity issues i simply put the time and date back to where it should be. i believe the big problem right now are ssl security certificates or security certificates. i've tried resetting internet options to default and that hasn't helped.