Hey there guys,
Thank you all so much for your inputs, advices and suggestions. I would have never let the drive(s) being NTFS in the first place, if there wasn’t critical data on it which I definitely needed to preserve after coming from Windows.
But I know for sure, that this is far from ideal.
May it be as it is.
I was now able to finally resolve the issues by:
- Creating a live bootable Windows USB stick
- Booting into it and performing
chkdsk /f
on all my NTFS drives - The check found a bunch of errors and successfully corrected them
After being back in Manjaro the issues are all gone, including the problematic file that I wasn’t able to delete.
Solved - with all of your help! Thank you so much