[Solved]HDD looks mounted, but "cannot access xyz:No such pr

[catch22]

I have an external HDD that has been working perfectly, until today.
Now I wonder if it is dying or even totally lost already.
To me it looks like it is mounted, because I can cd to it in the terminal.
But instead of showing the contents, there is this error message:

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ludo@ludo-desktop /media/ludo/08C8CAC6C8CAB16C $ ls
ls: cannot access $RECYCLE.BIN: No such process
ls: cannot access back_ups: No such process
ls: cannot access downloads_temp: No such process
ls: cannot access Filo_vertaling: No such process
ls: cannot access kdenlive: No such process
ls: cannot access lost+found: No such process
ls: cannot access m_FLAC_mp3_etc: No such process
ls: cannot access photos: No such process
ls: cannot access thuis_diverse: No such process
ls: cannot access video_2backup: No such process
ls: cannot access video_NObackup: No such process
ls: cannot access work_in_progress: No such process
back_ups/          Filo_vertaling/  m_FLAC_mp3_etc/  video_2backup/
downloads_temp/    kdenlive/        photos/          thuis_diverse/                 video_NObackup/
lost+found/      $RECYCLE.BIN/    work_in_progress/

[Flemur]

But instead of showing the contents, there is this error message:

Looks like it shows the contents after the strange ("no such process"?) error messages.
NTFS partition, correct? Can you access it with a file browser?

What does

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alias ls

show?

In that same directory/partition, what does

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/bin/ls

show?

[catch22]

The disk is NTFS yes.
Accessing with the Nemo file browser shows:

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The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "08C8CAC6C8CAB16C": Error when getting information for file '/media/ludo/08C8CAC6C8CAB16C/.Trash-1000': No such process

What does

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alias ls

show?

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alias ls='ls --group-directories-first --time-style=+"%d.%m.%Y %H:%M" --color=auto -F'

In that same directory/partition, what does

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/bin/ls

show?

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ludo@ludo-desktop /media/ludo/08C8CAC6C8CAB16C $ /bin/ls
back_ups	  Filo_vertaling  m_FLAC_mp3_etc  video_2backup
downloads_temp    kdenlive	    photos	    thuis_diverse		  video_NObackup
Caravan_Potingue  lost+found	    $RECYCLE.BIN    work_in_progress

[catch22]

Normally I would place an EDIT in my last post, but the change in situation is quite drastic I believe.
I inserted another external HDD (the most recent back up of the slightly older back up on suspected "broken" HDD) and it gave a similar error!

I tried both HDDs on an old laptop, and there is no problem there at all.
Conclusion is that the fault is in the desktop, not the HDDs.

What the next step should be, I have no idea ...
EDIT: apparently it had to do with some experimental linking I tried for getting the dropbox-icon to work normally.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 2#p1096762
I undid those changes, rebooted and the HDD mounts - relief