Can't mount HDD on Fedora 41/42

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Hello,

EDIT: Right after creating this post I have came across someone else who encountered the same issue and the problem was the power daemon. So sudo dnf install power-profiles-daemon --allowerasing solved my problem.

I am having this problem where it is impossible to mount, repair or access files on my hard drive using Fedora 41 or 42. Every other OS I have tried can access the drive including, Windows, Linux Mint, Nobara Linux. If I do sudo fsck /dev/sda1 this error is returned:

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193
or
e2fsck -b 32768

I could erase partitions and reformat them using gparted succesfully, smart test also shows no problems and file system checks on other operating systems all come out OK. However, I have not had success accessing the drive with any of these file systems: ext4, btrfs, ntfs.

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You say you have be erasing partitions etc.
What is currently setup on the disk?

Can you show the output of lsblk-f please.
Post as pre-formatted text using the </> button please.

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What filesystem do those OSes say that it is? Probably NTFS if Windows can access it (though FAT is also possible, and in theory BTRFS).

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Thank you for your reply, my issue seems to be the same as in this post.

The solution was, sudo dnf install power-profiles-daemon --allowerasing

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