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I have a 3 TB LDM Windows partition that was from a Windows 8 install that hibernated and I have since lost the hiberfil.sys or ability to boot into that install (through my own stupid actions, but that's beside the point).

The partition has ~ 1.6 TB of data that I would like to keep and use. The only problem is that I can't figure out a way to mount the partition in readwrite mode, only read-only.

The procedure I used to get it to mount at all was the following:

  1. Installed ldmtool
  2. ldmtool create all
  3. Attempted mounting with mount /dev/mapper/ldm_vol_JDPHENIX-01-Dg0_Volume1 ~/mnt/hdd/, failed with The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
  4. Successfully mounted with -o ro as suggested by the error message.

The question is how do I go about getting the data from this partition to a usable state (I define as mounted in some storage medium as read-write)?

I had considered purchasing sufficient cloud storage somewhere to temporarily hold the data, but that would exceed my bandwidth cap by a factor of 6.

I do consider "purchase an HDD capable of holding the data" as a valid solution, so if that's the ideal way to do this, don't refrain from posting exactly that.

Edit: I chose to purchase a new hard drive. I'm still interested in others' takes on how to best handle this.

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I determined that the best thing for me to do, in my circumstance, was to purchase a new HDD large enough for what I needed.

It ends up being more cost effective than a temporary cloud solution or purchasing a BD-R drive and media, and worth avoiding the frustration of USB thumb sticks and DVD-Rs, plus I can get more utility out of it later.

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