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It is a kind of messed up situation.
I installed Ubuntu 13.10 on Windows 8 which didn't display Ubuntu.
I then tried Boot-Repair by opening Try Ubuntu without installing.
Here is the URL: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6555659
At this instant I was unable to load Windows. Then I changed the BIOS setting from UEFI to Legacy which on restarting displayed the message No operating system found.

I installed Ubuntu 13.10 again.

Here are my problems:

  1. I am unable to load Windows. (It is asking for recovery media which I don't have right now.)
  2. In Ubuntu I am unable to mount any Windows partitions.

Error message:

Error mounting /dev/sda8 at /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda8" "/media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda8': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the 'ro' mount option.

I guess that Windows was hibernated or didn't shutdown properly. I can't open Windows again to ensure that it is properly shutdown (as mentioned earlier I don't have recovery media). I am happy to use Ubuntu for a while until I get my recovery media, but meanwhile is there any way to mount my Windows partitions?

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  • sudo mount -t "ntfs" -o "ro,uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda8" "/media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies"
    – Anders F. U. Kiær
    Dec 11, 2013 at 13:39
  • fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: No such file or directory , In the folder /media/dew/ there are no directories . It is completely empty
    – Rakesh Godhala
    Dec 11, 2013 at 13:44
  • mkdir -p '/media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies' then repeat.
    – Anders F. U. Kiær
    Dec 11, 2013 at 13:45
  • I created a folder there . but it is still not accessible.*fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: No such file or directory*
    – Rakesh Godhala
    Dec 11, 2013 at 13:52
  • The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda8': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown I tried the same command with -ro instead of -o. then the following error was seen. `fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: No such file or directory
    – Rakesh Godhala
    Dec 11, 2013 at 13:55

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ntfs-3g has an option to deal with this kind of situation: remove_hiberfile (see man page).

The man page goes on to warn about the consequences of using that option.

Please note, means that the saved Windows session will be completely lost. Use this option under your own responsibility.

If those are acceptable for you, you can try to mount your partition by adding remove_hiberfile to your -o string.

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  • sudo mount -t "ntfs" -o "ro,remove_hiberfile,uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda8" "/media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies" Is this how you add remove_hiberfile ?
    – Rakesh Godhala
    Dec 11, 2013 at 14:07
  • Can't see anything wrong with doing it that way.
    – drc
    Dec 11, 2013 at 14:12
  • I changed the name of partition from "Songs, Videos & Movies" to "Songs". then it worked it fine
    – Rakesh Godhala
    Dec 11, 2013 at 14:18
  • It seems that I need to do this every time I restart my lappy ?
    – Rakesh Godhala
    Dec 11, 2013 at 14:32
  • @RakeshGodhala, no you should only need to do it once as long as you aren't booting back into Windows.
    – psusi
    Dec 15, 2013 at 19:05

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