Following a few guides elsewhere on Ask Ubuntu How do I access my Windows partition? and How to mount a windows folder in Linux, I can get as far a successfully "seeing" what sda* drive I think I need to mount and get it to work... but when I go through the directory structure all I end up with is a "manifests" folder and nothing else.
Here is what I see:
I run this to check where Windows is: sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
I get this:
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 5B40B459-9C6D-495C-AD53-5F5F1CF8C15A
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2 1026048 1640447 614400 300M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1640448 1902591 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4 1902592 1594544128 1592641537 759.4G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 1594546176 1628263024 33716849 16.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 1901746176 1902460927 714752 349M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda7 1902460929 1951426560 48965632 23.4G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda8 1951426561 1953523712 2097152 1G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda9 1628264448 1889777663 261513216 124.7G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda10 1889777664 1901746175 11968512 5.7G Linux swap
Partition 7 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 8 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
I pick /dev/sda4 for this mount command: sudo mount --source /dev/sda4 --target /media/windows_mount/
This allows me to cd through the following path an I end up with what I think is an empty directory (ls gives me nothing): /media/windows_mount/Windows/WinSxS/Manifests$
So question is, assuming the mount process worked, why can't I see anything in the Windows folders?
As you can tell with my terminology, I've not done this before. I'm just trying to drag over a load of images that should be on the Windows partition but currently fail to get anywhere. When I try to dual boot back into Windows is also fails, so maybe its corrupt?
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.
I tried the same process with dev/sda5 but get a similar result.
