Dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, but Ubuntu is unable to access the Windows partition /dev/sdb3, shows the following error message :
Error mounting /dev/sdb3 ...
status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb3': 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.
Solution
Not sure what is the root cause, may be Windows didn’t shutdown properly. To fix it, use ntfsfix to check and repair the NTFS disk.
$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb3
Mounting volume... The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sdb3 was processed successfully.
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‘Refusing to operate on read-wrte mounted device’
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robinhoods@robinhoods:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb5
Failed to determine whether /dev/sdb5 is mounted: No such file or directory
Mounting volume… Failed to access ‘/dev/sdb5’: No such file or directory
Error opening ‘/dev/sdb5’: No such file or directory
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors… Failed to access ‘/dev/sdb5’: No such file or directory
Error opening ‘/dev/sdb5’: No such file or directory
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: No such file or directory
Failed to access ‘/dev/sdb5’: No such file or directory
Error opening ‘/dev/sdb5’: No such file or directory
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
robinhoods@robinhoods:~$
The driver have not been mounted yet
So how can we find and fix it?
Thanks
Hello, great tutorial as usual, just wondering if it is windows 8?
Windows 8 is known to generate mount problems due to not completely shutting down but instead going in to a kind of hibernation to fasten the boot process..
Yes, Windows 8.1 , thanks for your feedback.
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