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Does Ubuntu damage USB drives?
No worries Ubuntu did not damage your USB drive. But we do not use poorly documented bit flags of a FAT32, FAT16, or NTFS filesystem. On Windows these flags indicate a possibly corrupted filesystem ...
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Unable to mount NTFS external hard drive
This was good enough for me:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
On Ubuntu 14.04 this comes with:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
Older versions of Ubuntu (e.g. 12.04) would require:
sudo apt-get install ...
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Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only?
Happened to me, all I did was
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdxX # where x is HDD and X is drive number, in my case it was /dev/sda1
it will remove any logfile created by windows.
worked for me.
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Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only?
Performing a full shutdown of Windows will allow the drives to be fully mounted by Ubuntu. This can be accomplished by holding the SHIFT key as you press the "Shut down" button on the "...
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Does Ubuntu damage USB drives?
This is mostly an issue with Windows. It thinks it is the only OS in the world and acts out if it detects something it does not understand.
Just because Windows says you must repair the drive does ...
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WoeUSB Error Code 256 with NTFS formatted USB
Edit 6: a major edit
Now we talk about the github version of woeusb
The github version is at 5.1.3 and works in Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS (and 18.04.x LTS, probably all current versions of Ubuntu, but I have ...
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Why does my NTFS partition mount as read only?
If it happens in case of dual booting with Windows 10, you need to uncheck turn on fast startup in Control Panel --> Power Options --> Choose what the power buttons do and then shutdown, not ...
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Cannot remove hiberfile on NTFS partition
I had same problem.
Try: ntfsfix /dev/sda5
"remove_hiberfile" option no longer works.
"ntfs-3g" package policy is to use the new tool ntfsfix
However, this tool didn't work for me ...
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
gparted (GNU Partition Editor) is a good graphical tool for formating drives to a variety of different filesystem types. You can install it with sudo apt-get install gparted.
Just as when you are ...
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How to automount NTFS partitions?
Ubuntu 20.04 and later
Open nautilus and create a new folder, I suggest in the home folder.
Open the Disks application.
Select the partition you want to automount and then click on Additional ...
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How to enable NTFS write support on mounted partitions in Ubuntu 18.04?
to mount the partitions in read-write mode:
run ntfsfix /dev/sdaX to resolve the problem. then remount the partitions.
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unable to mount ntfs partition created inside widows 10
You need to disable Windows fast start-up option.
Open Control Panel -> Energy Settings and select Change what the power buttons do.
Choose Change settings that are currently unavailable, scroll ...
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Unable to mount NTFS partition (no hibernation)
Run sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2 and you will be able to mount the partition.
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Dropbox on a dual-boot machine
Q. Can this situation be solved?
Nope.
Which probably leads to ...
Q. Why not?
The problem comes down to how Dropbox relies on the journaling mechanism of the file system to know when a file has been ...
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Cannot remove hiberfile on NTFS partition
Moving the -o to the end worked for me:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 /mnt/win -o remove_hiberfile
(Ubuntu 16.04 live cd and a vanilla windows 7)
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Does Ubuntu damage USB drives?
As you suggested in a comment, this is possibly related to Ubuntu not completing the write process before you remove the flash drive. Ubuntu writes the files to RAM during the copying process, and ...
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Ubuntu mounts external ntfs drive as read-only?
This is a common question and has been answered numerous times in AskUbuntu (for example, here).
In short, you probably have fast boot turned on in Windows, which is why Linux will only mount it in ...
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Can't mount NTFS partition with write permissions
If the NTFS drives are mounting as read-only, its probably because Ubuntu thinks their filesystems are unclean, probably due to hibernation, or a damaged file system. Do this:
in Windows
boot into ...
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Format USB drive to NTFS so it is usable under Windows
With mkntfs
Install mkntfs which is provided by package ntfs-3g:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
Find the partition of your USB drive with lsblk -f or df -Th. Let's assume it's at /dev/sdb1.
Unmount the ...
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Recovering broken or deleted NTFS partitions
Disclaimer: I provided an answer to similar questions here and here. This is a summary of those two answers. Moreover, I am the developer of RecuperaBit.
Your NTFS partition is broken. In order to ...
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Can't write to NTFS formatted drives
If you're dual-booting, try
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1
and replace /dev/sda1 with the partition name (e.g. /dev/sda4 [for the fourth partition on the primary hard drive] or /dev/sdb [for a single ...
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What causes high CPU usage by mount.ntfs?
Changing the mount options for the NTFS partition changed the application I was using from unusable with 100% mount.ntfs CPU to fully functional. The key one to use is "big_writes", but my full list ...
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How do I use 'chmod' on an NTFS (or FAT32) partition?
Check that Fast Startup is turned off
If Windows uses Fast Startup, it is semi-hibernated, and its file system is 'dirty', and Linux mounts it read-only to avoid causing damage. Either reboot Windows (...
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Unable to mount external NTFS HDDs due to duplicate UUID
To mount an NTFS drive we can also use a disk label only. We can safely change the label from Windows or by using ntfslabel . See
Constant UUID on USB install
How to rename partitions?
Needless to ...
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Unable to access the HardDisk drive in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Simply open terminal and type this command
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
you can replace /dev/sda2 by your appropriate drive in which you are facing problem, like in my case there was a same problem with ...
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Install Ubuntu on a NTFS partition
It is possible to install Ubuntu on a NTFS partition.
Image Creation
You need to create an image file on your NTFS partition. Try boot up your Ubuntu Live CD, start a terminal, change directory into ...
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unable to mount ntfs partition created inside widows 10
It happens because of the partial hibernation of Windows (From Windows 8). I hope you are trying to open a drive from your dual booted system which is shutdowned from Windows last time.
A quick and ...
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Why are NTFS partition UUIDs shorter than normal?
Because those values aren't UUIDs; they're NTFS serial numbers. They're identified as UUIDs in /etc/fstab (and elsewhere) because the developers chose to use the identifier "UUID" for fundamentally ...
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Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation
For windows 10, I figured out how to turn off the fast startup. Did one screencast to solve that. Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > System Settings Then click on 'Change ...
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Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation
It has become even more simple (Windows 8+)
Just force shutdown or you can say complete shutdown your windows system before rebooting to Ubuntu OS.
Well how will I do that?
Very simple: Shift + ...
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