External NTFS drive not mounting, drive works everywhere else

[KaitoCross]

Hello everyone,
I have a problem trying to mount my external USB HDD. It's formatted in NTFS, and works fine on both my Arch Linux PC and my Windows Laptop. CHKDSK did not find any errors on there.
USB automount doesnt work, and when mounting manually, I get these error messages:

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo mount -t ntfs -o nodev,noexec,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda2 /media/usb0
ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation

Pi Model: Pi 4B
PSU: Official Raspberry Pi
Drive: 18TB Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC550 in a USB 3 enclosure from a different WD Elements external drive. Enclosure has additional PSU.
RetroPie version 4.8 from the official image
Drive is connected through a powered USB 3 hub.

What can I do to make it work? Reformatting is not an option.

[mitu]

@KaitoCross said in External NTFS drive not mounting, drive works everywhere else:

RetroPie version 4.8 from the official image

I think the kernel version in the image doesn't have the new (Paragon) ntfs file system included. You can use the ntfs-3g userspace driver if you want write support, mount the drive as read-only or use a more recent RaspiOS to base your installation on.

[KaitoCross]

@mitu I've already tried ntfs-3g, which gave me the same errors as above (with -t ntfs-3g)

[mitu]

In this case, I think the last option (newer RaspiOS) is the one to try out.