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I'm trying to diagnose/rescue a Windows 11 PC which won't boot into Windows 11. I use Ubuntu on another of my PCs. I created a Linux Ubuntu bootable USB key and it booted the "Windows dead" PC but it doesn't show the Windows files on the "Windows dead" PC ? Is there any way to do this ?

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  1. Determine the device of interest, using:
sudo fdisk -l

Note: You could also use sudo parted -l, but the device name is less explicit.

Example: Here, the Windows partition corresponds to the /dev/nvme0n1p4 device (see the filesystem size and type).

$ sudo fdisk -l
...
Périphérique       Début        Fin  Secteurs Taille Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048    1087487   1085440   530M Environnement de récupération Windows
/dev/nvme0n1p2   1087488    1619967    532480   260M Système EFI
/dev/nvme0n1p3   1619968    1882111    262144   128M Réservé Microsoft
/dev/nvme0n1p4   1882112  281618431 279736320 133,4G Données de base Microsoft
/dev/nvme0n1p5 998418432 1000212479   1794048   876M Environnement de récupération Windows
/dev/nvme0n1p6 281618432  289431551   7813120   3,7G Partition d'échange Linux
/dev/nvme0n1p7 289431552  387088383  97656832  46,6G Système de fichiers Linux
/dev/nvme0n1p8 387088384  998418431 611330048 291,5G Système de fichiers Linux
  1. Choose/create a (empty) directory where the partition must be mounted.
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/windows
  1. Mount the partition:
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p4 /mnt/windows

Note that depending on how you stopped Windows, this message may appear:

The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
  1. Do your stuff:
ls /mnt/windows
  1. After leaving, unmount this filesystem:
sudo umount /mnt/windows
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