HOLY SHIT! YES! Thank you so much! I thought that drive was a goner. I was on the verge of just buying a new SSD. You just saved me a couple hundred bucks. Thank you once again!
I went ahead tried this but got an error when using makepkg -si:/home/[username]/ntfsprogs-ntfs3/PKGBUILD: line 45: autoreconf: command not found==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...
I went to file in question and line 45 says this: autoreconf -vfi
Thanks. Bookmarking for future reference.