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I have installed ubuntu on my laptop alongside my windows 10(that i use primarily).

when ubuntu was installed, I noticed that grub was not booting into windows but was booting in ubuntu.

so i had to manually select windows boot loader by pressing f12 wile booting.

but when i booted into ubuntu i noticed that windows partitions were showing but were not accessible.

I want to use ubuntu for my college purposes so i will have to transfer many files between windows and ubuntu.

even if i could access one partition from my hdd is enough.

i didnt get any solution on the internet so far so i havent tried anything.

if you know what to do please help.

Kavin Mayekar
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I suspect that you just have to mount the "Windows" partitions that you can't immediately access in Linux. You can use a mount command or edit the file system table to make the mount process automatic. See, for example, https://linuxnorth.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/mounting-disks-automatically/

CentaurusA
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Let me first say that if your goal is to easily and reliably share files between Windows and Ubuntu, then the best way is to create a new NTFS partition on your hard disk to share files, rather than trying to mount your Windows C: partition and reading/writing to that.

However, if you must read/write to your Windows C: partition from Ubuntu, then you must prepare Windows in the following way:

If the NTFS drives are mounting as read-only, its probably because Ubuntu thinks their filesystems are unclean, probably due to hibernation, or a damaged file system. Do this...

in Windows

  • boot into Windows
  • open the Power control panel
  • choose change what the power buttons do
  • choose change options that are unavailable
  • uncheck fast startup
  • close the Power control panel
  • open an administrative command prompt window
  • type powercfg /h off
  • type chkdsk /f c:
  • approve to run chkdsk at next reboot
  • reboot into Windows to let chkdsk run on drive C:
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