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I think the disks could be Dynamic Disks on which it would not be a good idea to install a linux distro.
Unfortunately Microsoft's own advice to change it to a basic disk (since it considers dynamic deprecated) WILL RESULT IN DATA LOSS.
Since you only want to access them it seem to be possible with ldmtool. While it is a cli tool there is a corresponding service that at least according to some askubuntu posts and arcwiki should make them behave like normal filesystems.
Double checked and all of the drives are basic. I'm very confused as to what is different between the disks that readable and the ones that aren't.
I've even tried multiple distros. Same scenario.
That's a bummer. Unfortunately I can't think of something else since fast startup has been suggested by another user and it's also not the case.
The drives are shown as NTFS by Gparted right? Also can you confirm that the sizes should be those sizes? As in do you remember from when you bought them? 16 TB is still a big drive. Additionally can you confirm that they are all different drives and not partitions on the same disk.
Do they show up on the file explorer sidebar or if you go to "Other Locations" (in the file explorer)? If so do you get an error when you try to access them?
If they don't unfortunately you probably will have to use the terminal to try and mount them so we can hopefully get some error message and hopefully some clue to what is going on.