HDD not being scanned despite being mounted

I’d prefer to use NTFS as there is a 2gb limit on fat32 and I’ll be loading the music I’m ripping from my collect via a Windows machine. I do not use linux on any machine for reasons we don’t need to discuss. Can I resolve this issue without booting to a linux distro? If not, which distro? I don’t want it installed on the hard drive, so I have to use one that will boot from a usb drive. And, can you tell me what commands to enter? I appreciate your time. Thanks.