The problem was resolved. Windows quit recognizing the drive but I could still see it in Fedora and mount the ntfs partition so I copied the data from the drive to other drives and then reformatted the drive in Fedora. Last weekends backup ran to the drive with no problems. Thanks for all the assistance. I learned a few things about how to troubleshoot this problem with assistance from the community, Thanks.
Still unresolved is the fact that the safely remove option in Fedora is sometimes there and other times the only option is unmount. Still not sure if that had anything to do with my problem but it came up after the drive was mounted and the “safely remove” option was not available.
Thanks again.