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I recently got a new 3TB hard drive which I plan on loading up with video files on my Window PC and then transfering the hard drive to my Linux PC/server.

I formatted the drive as NTFS (since I was told that NTFS is compatible in both environments) and partitioned the drive as GPT (since I read this was also compatible in both environments), but, even though it detects the drive on my Linux PC, I'm getting an error when trying to access it which reads:

Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at media/me/LONGSTRINGOFNUMBERSANDCHARACTERSTHATIBELIEVEISHEXID‌​ECIMALCODE:
Command-line 'mount-t "ntfs" -o "unhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000" "/dev/sdb2" "media/me/SAMELONGSTRINGASABOVE"' exited with non-zero exit status 14:
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. 
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Operation not permitted. The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.

Anybody have any idea what this means? What I have to do to fix this??

muru
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Did you shut windows down with QuickStart enabled?? Win8.1 and later doesn't really shut down, it hibernates.

Plug the drive back into a windows system. scan it with windows to be sure it is ok, then eject the drive while windows s running.

It should then be readable by ubuntu.

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