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When I try to open the Windows Partition from Ubuntu I receive the error:

Unable to mount 55 GB Filesystem
Error mounting: mount exited without exit code 13: ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn:
magic: 0x04010400 size: 1024 usa_ofs: 1026 usa_count: 1026: Invalid argument
Record 6 has no FILE magic (0x4010400)
Failed to open inode FILE_Bitmap: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a 
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot 
into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device 
is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under 
the /dev/mapper/directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 
'dmraid'  documentation for more detail.

Additionally, I can't boot into Windows. I've tried updating it many times but it won't show up on GRUB.

Does anybody know what all this means? And how I might fix it?

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Is it a raid drive? ntfs-3g seems to think it might (that's the module that provides NTFS compatibility. I can only suggest that you boot windows and back up your data to an external drive immediately. If it's not a raid system, you should run chksdsk /f a few time on it to check and repair the file system as suggested on the error message. If it is a raid system, you'll need to set it up to use it. – fabricator4 Nov 25 '12 at 7:24
Ummm how do I find out? (sorry I'm pretty new to linux and all this technical stuff) also, I can't get into windows at all. – C.J. Nov 25 '12 at 7:31
It's no so much to do with Ubuntu as it to do with how your hardware was set up. Try looking in BIOS/firmware settings to see if Raid is enabled. I still think you need to boot Windows and back your data up. If you've got anything at all important there you need to be very concerned about it until you get backed up safely. – fabricator4 Nov 25 '12 at 7:46

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