Drive disappearing on boot but still mounted?

Hello! new convert from windows needing some help after tapping out on an issue. Bordering on clueless with Linux I feel, so this has been “fun”.
Using Bazzite 42 (Silver blue)
2tb NVME having this issue

Recently formatted a drive because finally learned the obnoxious way that NTFS bad. After formatting the drive, any time I reboot it acts as if the drive isn’t there. I have confirmed it is set to mount on boot and weridly does? Fdisk confirms its there, the KDE drive manager shows its there AND partition is mounted, but Steam/Blender/Rythm Box cannot see it until you unmount and re-mount. After the remount then all programs can see it, but act as if they have never seen the drive before. As an example of how it behaves, steam will not recognize the games installed on it despite the files being there and explorable/launchable in the file browser. Files will only being recognized by programs after launching straight from the files inside the wonky drive where possible.

On a dumb hunch I tried both EXT4 and Better NTFS as well. What the ungodly fufk is going on? and how can I have this idiot drive show up on boot without fuss?

After thought/side question: is it normal to have to grant super user just to browse any drive? I bring this up because it feels wrong and possibly related.

please try.
open disks
then highlight the drive in question. at the bottom left click on the ‘cog’ symbol.
in that menu click ‘mount options’

then at the top turn off (disable) ‘user session defaults’
and then tick/enable ‘mount at system start up’

see if that helps.
best of luck, Steve ..

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Looks like that did it, this was the last headache I had.

out of curiosity for learning sake do you know if those defaults are something easily editable and do you how?

most of the defaults you cant overwrite as the /root system is read only.
but have a look at gnome extensions as they can help to change things to the way you may require them.

best of luck, Steve ..

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