USB hardrive not being detected

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My trusty Wii hardrive is not working. Must be something to do with Fedora, because it works on my phone, my Windows computer, and my Wii. Fedora clearly knows it exists, because when I run lsblk it shows sda when the drive is plugged in. Here’s the full log.
Drive in:

MEE:~$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk 
zram0       251:0    0     8G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme1n1     259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1    0   600M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme1n1p2 259:2    0     1G  0 part /boot
└─nvme1n1p3 259:3    0 475.4G  0 part /home
                                      /
nvme0n1     259:4    0  27.3G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1 259:5    0  27.2G  0 part

Drive out:

MEE:~$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
zram0       251:0    0     8G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme1n1     259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1    0   600M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme1n1p2 259:2    0     1G  0 part /boot
└─nvme1n1p3 259:3    0 475.4G  0 part /home
                                      /
nvme0n1     259:4    0  27.3G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1 259:5    0  27.2G  0 part

I’d like to keep all the data on the drive, and it’s about half full. It is seems to be about 2 TB.

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What happens when you try to mount it manually—for example, using mount /dev/sda <directory> ?

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Tried to mount to home. As you can see, didn’t work.

MEE:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda /home
[sudo] password for yellowsam: 
mount: /home: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
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Wii uses the WBFS filesystem by default. On Fedora you need to install wbfs-manager or one of the many 3rd party utilities.

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How should I go about doing that, and do you know of the best one that preferably won’t wipe my HDD?

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Start with the one Fedora provides. If it missing a feature you need, then search the list of alternatives.

Make backups oon an external drive and disconnect it when backups are completed (the time I forgot that step, a Windows “upgrade” reformatted by backup drive!)