Freaking A. This worked!
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2 ✔
[sudo] password for hardbrocklife:
Mounting volume... $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 3).
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... FAILED
Correcting differences in $MFTMirr record 3...OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda2 was processed successfully.
Was doing some more research becuase I dont want to invite Gates back into my life and found a similar issue posted on another forum. Ran this command and it immediately loaded.
Marking this thread as resolved and this as the resolution, but any idea as to why this worked?
“Correcting differences in $MFTMirr record 3…OK”
This correlates the error the it spat out earlier:
“$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 3).”
MFT, and whatever it is, is beyond my knowledge at the moment.