Thank you so much for your replies. Here they are.
rclone ls A: -vv and share the full output
C:\rclone1.52.2>rclone ls A: -vv
2022/04/16 20:53:29 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.58.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "ls" "A:" "-vv"]
2022/04/16 20:53:29 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "A:"
2022/04/16 20:53:29 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\XX\\.config\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2022/04/16 20:53:29 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "2022:A"
It goes on to list all files on the drive
65677567 FILENAME.zip
etc
2022/04/16 20:53:40 DEBUG : 18 go routines active
rclone ls I:\new\1.tar -vv and share the full output
C:\rclone1.52.2>rclone ls I:\new\1.tar -vv
2022/04/16 20:58:10 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.58.0" starting with parameters ["rclone" "ls" "I:\\new\\1.tar" "-vv"]
2022/04/16 20:58:10 DEBUG : Creating backend with remote "I:\\new\\1.tar"
2022/04/16 20:58:10 DEBUG : Using config file from "C:\\Users\\XX\\.config\\rclone\\rclone.conf"
2022/04/16 20:58:10 DEBUG : fs cache: renaming cache item "I:\\new\\1.tar" to be canonical "//?/I:/new/1.tar"
2022/04/16 20:58:10 ERROR : : error listing: directory not found
2022/04/16 20:58:10 DEBUG : 2 go routines active
2022/04/16 20:58:10 Failed to ls with 2 errors: last error was: directory not found
i: drive is a local hard drive that I can access perfectly fine through Windows Explorer.