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Until recently both my Windows Partition (C:) and my Data Partition (E:) would mount as read/write. Now both seem to only mount as read-only.

GParted Resize (Error)

ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Device name : /dev/sda4
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 86207623680 bytes (86208 MB)
Current device size: 86207627264 bytes (86208 MB)
New volume size : 78662066688 bytes (78663 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use : 62126 MB (72.1%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
Needed relocations : 1606868 (6582 MB)
Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows boot time ...
Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while)
Relocating needed data ...
ERROR: Extended record needed (1032 > 1024), not yet supported!
Please try to free less space.

chkdsk Output: 

Checking file system on E:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Data.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.                         
  99482 file records processed.
  495 large file records processed.                     
  0 bad file records processed.                         
  0 EA records processed.                               
  0 reparse records processed.                          
  104412 index entries processed.                       
  0 unindexed files processed.                          
  99482 security descriptors processed.                 
  2466 data files processed.                            

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  4479208 USN bytes processed.                                     
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

84187132 KB total disk space.
  60479688 KB in 69969 files.
     15520 KB in 2467 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    174336 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  23517588 KB available on disk.
      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  21046783 total allocation units on disk.
   5879397 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
9a 84 01 00 00 1b 01 00 fc 1a 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
42 00 00 00 52 73 5c 77 b0 e7 1d 00 b0 df 1d 00  B...Rs\w........

fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=8213cc89-2438-41b9-899f-13b4c5b299af /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=45873767-d9ae-4f0c-baab-ffc2726ac24e none            swap    sw              0       0

Checked the drive in GParted, GSmartControl and with ntfsfix, all completed successfully, no change.

Partitions

dev/sda1 NTFS WinRE
dev/sda2 NTFS Windows C:
dev/sda3 Extended
dev/sda4 NTFS Data E:
dev/sda5 EXT4 Ubuntu
dev/sda6 linux-swap

I am looking for an explanation of: 

Internal Info:
9a 84 01 00 00 1b 01 00 fc 1a 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
42 00 00 00 52 73 5c 77 b0 e7 1d 00 b0 df 1d 00  B...Rs\w........

and 

Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while)
Relocating needed data ...
ERROR: Extended record needed (1032 > 1024), not yet supported!
Please try to free less space.
Lewis Goddard
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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.

Klesun
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Hammad Farooq
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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 "Power" menu.

Wadih M.
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schulwitz
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The system might not have the files for writing to NTFS partitions installed.

Try this in terminal:

sudo apt-get remove ntfsprogs && sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

This removes ntfsprogs if it's present on the system, and installs ntfs-3g which should allow you to write properly to NTFS partitions.

Then reboot your system, and attempt to open the NTFS drive for write access. You should now be able to write to the NTFS drive.

Thomas Ward
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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 reboot. Once it's done properly you'll be able to access the NTFS partitions normally with read/write permissions.

This happens due to the Windows 10 update resets it to the default fast startup which is a form of hibernation.

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krkart
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1

Follow these steps:

  1. Open terminal and type:

    $ blkid

  2. Find the partition (if you have a single HDD then it will be /dev/sdax and another HDD will be sdbx).

  3. When your partition to fix is /dev/sda5 umount it when it's mounted:

    $ sudo umount /dev/sda5

  4. Run the following command, where a is the HDD's position and 5 is the partition's position:

    $ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda5

It's worked for me!

Rava
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Rasel Khan
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In dual(multi) boot system, When you tries logout from Windows OS, to achieve fastboot Windows keeps claim on drives by locking write access. And due to that in other OS, Windows specific partitions are mounted as read-only. Using "Disable Fastboot" feature we can, stop this action.

But sometimes the feature "Disable Fastboot" is prohibited to change by non-admin user by group policy restriction.

The below solution will help for all situations.

Login to windows, close all opened windows if any and execute following, from Run dialog

shutdown /f /r /t 0

/f Force running applications to close without forewarning users.

/r Full shutdown and restart the computer.

/t xxx Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.

Prashant Adlinge
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try below solution only if last resort only

I tried all solution. none of them work. this may be due to windows disk error(bad sector) & wasn't shutdown properly.

Only work solution me for delete everything from nvme drive.Note that this will remove everything on storage/nvme drive.

apt-get install nvme-cli

To delete everything or format drive I used tool called "nvme-format" http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/cosmic/man1/nvme-format.1.html

 nvme format /dev/nvmeXY # where nvmeXY is device name

note: this will erase everything from drive.

Kaushal
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I had the same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04. Installing fuse and ntfs-3g fixed it.

sudo apt install fuse ntfs-3g

After that, remember to either reboot or remount.

Franco Ruggeri
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If you are using solid-state drive (SSD),

List the drives using following command

ls -1 /dev/nvme*

Fix it using

sudo ntfsfix /dev/nvme0nXpY # Here usually X is SSD and Y is drive number
Nalin
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I had a corrupt USB in Windows 10 & 11 which would not mount. Windows chkdsk failed:

chkdsk D: /f /r /x

The type of the file system is NTFS. Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected. I went to my Ubuntu machine & ran the following commands:

fdisk -l /dev/sdi
  Device     Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
  /dev/sdi1     34     32767     32734    16M Microsoft reserved
  /dev/sdi2  32768 250066943 250034176 119.2G Microsoft basic data
smartctl -d sat  -l selftest /dev/sdi

Which successfully passed so the disk was ok

ntfsfix /dev/sdi2
  Mounting volume... OK
  Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
  Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
  NTFS volume version is 3.1.
  NTFS partition /dev/sdi2 was processed successfully.

After this I successfully mounted the USB and backed up all my data in Linux. Hope this helps someone in the future.

Lewis Goddard
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Tim UK
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