Failed to mount drive

I freshly just got on garuda and finished the install, one of my drives was fine but the other failed to mount, i tried looking online for a fix but nothing is exactly working, heres what it says

error mounting /dev/sda2 at /run/media/myusernameherexd/347A50BF7A507F92: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

idk what any of this means and im confused :+1:

Please post your garuda-inxi as requested by the template.

This is typical for NTFS drives on Linux. Use ntfsfix and the forum search, we had this topic several times already.

btw: we advise against using NTFS drives permanently on Linux. There is only one operating system that supports the proprietary NTFS file system 100%, and that is windows.


General tips for using NTFS with Linux:
Disable Fastboot in the BIOS and Fast start and Hibernate in windows.
Always shut down Windows correctly → right-click on the start menu → shutdown, otherwise it is not a real shutdown but a hybrid shutdown and the file system is not correctly released for use with Linux (or other OS).
Always eject external drives correctly, never simply unplug them.

In Linux you should disable automatic mounting for NTFS drives at system start and generally only mount NTFS drives when they are needed and unmount them afterwards.

If corrupt NTFS partitions/drives cannot be repaired under linux with ntfsfix, then you should always try to do this on windows, for example with chkdsk.

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