Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Maybe Linux isn't for me if accessing my Windows drives is going to be troublesome.
Honestly? It's not troublesome you just don't know how to do it yet. How are you getting on mounting your Linux drives in Windows?... If you're going to want to run back to Win10 every time you don't know how to do something, then honestly just give up now. Linux isn't worse (often, it's better) but it *is* different. There's a learning curve and you need to be ready to persevere with that until you have that knowledge, just like when you started out with Windows.
I don't mean this in any kind of nasty or derogatory way, I'm just trying to give you some perspective. As it happens what you want is easy enough. I'm typing this off the top of my head (not in Linux atm) so you may need a few simple tweaks if you hit any issues.
Is the drive NTFS? I'll assume it is. You need to mount it automatically at boot (well you don't 'need' to but it's easier) using fstab and then you can symlink to it if you want.
First unmount the drive, which will be mounted as you said with a random uuid and mount point (eg /dev/sda):
Code:
sudo umount /path/to/drive
Then
Add:
Code:
UUID=E692727A92724F55 ntfs-3g /media/name/Music defaults 0 0
Save and exit (CTRL + X followed by Y followed by enter/return). Now mount the drive by clicking on it again (eg in Places in the file manager).
Now you can make the extra symlink if you want (it'll already show up as a drive/place in the sidebar once mounted, so it's up to you if you really need an extra fairly pointless symlink in /home):
Code:
sudo chown username:username /media/name/Music
Code:
mkdir '/home/name/e drive music'
Code:
ln -s /media/name/Music /home/name/music etc etc