NTFS Secondary Hard Drive - Folders Show up as Shortcuts

Since you are using an NTFS partition format, which is only for Windows, I believe you have to take ownership of your NTFS drive, in order to use it properly.

Its as I said in that thread back in 2021, I really recommend a GPT EXT4 partition filing system, over that of NTFS. But @Aravisian post about taking ownership on NTFS partition filing system is correct.