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    1. You say you haven’t been able to install Nvidia drivers, but then say you are using 550 drivers. Are you saying you can’t run any games or programs that engage your GPU? Open and terminal and run nvidia-smi and see what the output is.

    2. What is the filesystem on these drives? If it’s NTFS, they will be mounted as read-only by default and show as owned by root. This is by design to prevent potential damage to NTFS filesystems which are technically a Windows-only thing. You do have the option of changing this behavior, but it will inevitably cause problems because the open driver to run these filesystems on Linux still runs into some MS proprietary filesystem issues. If you have the option of copying the files on each drive to your local drive, reformatting the externals into another more friendly filesystem, then copying the files back, you’ll be in a much better place. I would suggest exFat to make things simplest for you, since it sounds like you may be plugging those drivers into other Windows machines, potentially.