it still mounts and at first glance seems to be working
What makes you say that?
Show us the output of things like lsblk, mount and cat /etc/fstab to give us a fuller picture
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Stop trying to write to it, such as with fsck. Shut down the system, boot from another drive, and mount the flaky drive read-only. See if you can get any important files off it. If that doesn't work it starts getting weirder. Also, is the drive making any weird noises? What is the output of smartctl -a? Do you have important stuff on the drive that is not backed up? Do you have stuff on the drive that is highly confidential and not encrypted?
Best case is that you have backups and your drive is encrypted or uninteresting, so if it is failing then you can warranty it and restore from backups. Are you ok for that if it comes to it?
It's not the boot drive and is unmounted at the moment
Any data recovery I'm trying at the moment is from the portable drive I cloned the main one from. And yes I got actually important stuff backed in multiple places, it's mostly media and stuff like game saves I'm trying to get back.
I'm actually in a live boot rn copying as many files off it to other drives (and it seems to be working unlike on my main install?)
External drive? Is it a usb drive? If it is you might be best pulling out the drive and connecting it to a sata port. The mount as read only and do what everyone else suggests
My main backup drive is internal/Sata but I cloned it to an external USB one after I started noticing issues with it
Do you have that drive mounted in Steam as a library? I have had a similar issue with an NTFS formatted drive
I don't have any NTFS drives and didn't use that drive for Steam games
Oh okey! I wonder what could have went wrong then. I'm glad you found a workaround to your problem
I'd focus on KDE here, it sounds like the gui auto mount service is barfing for some reason. Does the drive mount normally when you boot to the CLI and try to mount it by hand?
I am using fstab to mount my drives not KDEs mounting solution as I've had issues with that in the past.
But I still get a popup in the bottom corner saying the drive couldn't mount
And yeah even went mounting and going through the drive just using CLI it still freezes up, I dunno if there's a way to get an error log from Ls? Or something similar
get an error log from Ls? Or something similar
You have just been told that
in the other comment
My bad I'm reading this all off my phone rn while using a live boot on my PC
When I tried using Ls on my main install it just froze without giving any output, I even left it for over an hour and it didn't budge.