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If you could mount it with the mount command, the drive is likely physically fine. My guess would be that something in PopOS didn’t mount the filesystem correctly. I’m not sure how PopOS handles automatically mounting drives. If it were a drive that was always connected, you could tell PopOS to mount it on every boot by putting the correct line in /etc/fstab
I was asked to set up an HP printer earlier this week. It was connected by a USB cable. It stopped printing after a few pages.
HP wants the end user to download their app to use the printer. The printer also has to be set up using an Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection. I’d already tried to connect it to Wi-Fi using the button on the printer, but it just said “Er” & blinked some other lights. The HP website specifically says that the printer cannot be used with just a USB cable.
I was confident I could have got it to connect to Wi-Fi and downloaded the app, but it was too much of a problem just to be able to print.
I had a Brother printer moved into its place. There haven’t been any other printing issues.