On xfce panel launcher disappeared and system doesn't recognises usb nor external hard drives anymore

I updated my system with pacman and restarted.
When I logged back in, the launcher has disappeared and my NTFS external hard drive does not mount and get the following error: “An error occurred while accessing ‘XXX Drive’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /run/media/ltw/XXX Drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error”
Any help is very much appreciated, Thank you in advance

What file system?

It’s a NTFS drive.
I never had any issues before, it was mounting fine.

You could try to disable the kernel-internal ntfs3 driver by:

sudo pacman -Syu ntfs-3g
echo 'blacklist ntfs3' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/disable-ntfs3.conf
sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo update-grub

and reboot afterwards. Several users had similar issues.

Always make sure to completely shutdown Windoze before switching to Manjaro. Switch off Fast startup in Windoze and similar things.

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That seems to have resolved the hard drive issue, Thank you so much!

Just the missing panel issue left

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I don’t know about restoring the old panel, but you can hit Windows key and then settings - panel, or ctrl+esc and then applications-settings-panel, and add and configure new panel.

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