I recently made the switch from Windows to Linux using CachyOS, and I'm still getting the hang of things. I have two hard drives: a 500GB one for the system and a 3TB one where I keep my games and files. Everything was going smoothly until I tried playing a game that usually runs fine. It started lagging and freezing, so I rebooted the PC. After the restart, I found that my games appeared to be uninstalled, and when I tried to access my 3TB hard drive, I got an error message saying it couldn't mount due to issues like wrong filesystem or bad options. I'm in need of some solutions to get my 3TB drive back and working. Thanks for any help!
3 Answers
Have you checked if the filesystem on your secondary drive is intact? Sometimes Linux needs to access drives that were improperly shut down or have a 'dirty' state due to Windows. Try checking the drive on a Windows machine first, and do a scan/repair. Also, remember to eject drives safely in Windows before switching over to Linux!
First, verify if your 3TB drive is actually using NTFS. Linux can sometimes struggle with NTFS drives if Windows was set to hibernate or if there were crashes. You might want to plug it into a Windows machine and run a filesystem scan or repair. Also, make sure to disable the fast boot and hibernation options in Windows in the future. If it isn't NTFS, then you're looking at a different set of troubleshooting steps.
It sounds like your 3TB drive might be formatted with NTFS, which can cause issues with Linux. To properly read NTFS drives, you usually need to install the `ntfs-3g` package. Since you're using CachyOS, which is based on Arch, you can install it using the command `pacman -S ntfs-3g`. Before that, it might be a good idea to run `pacman -Syu` to update your packages. After installing, try rebooting your PC to see if the drive becomes accessible.
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