Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04

black3dynamite

Can you try accessing that partition from a live ubuntu installer?

gjacobse

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows from Ubuntu:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows from Ubuntu:

Installed Windows, shrank drive, installed Ubuntu 18.04.

Unable to mount the Windows drive even though shutdown is clean.

Windows is (or should be) sda4,..

sda1 - ntfs
sda2 - vfat /boot/efi
sda3 -
sda4 -
sda5 ext4

I'm following this (which has worked in the past)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/978746/how-to-mount-ntfs-partition-in-ubuntu-16-04

What happens when you mount sda1?

sda is listed as the recovery partition,.. and likely doesn't have any of the User data.

That being said,.. I'll check that.

Follow up, yes I can mount and access /dev/sda1.

But there isn't anything there other than the recovery.

dbeato

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows from Ubuntu:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows from Ubuntu:

Installed Windows, shrank drive, installed Ubuntu 18.04.

Unable to mount the Windows drive even though shutdown is clean.

Windows is (or should be) sda4,..

sda1 - ntfs
sda2 - vfat /boot/efi
sda3 -
sda4 -
sda5 ext4

I'm following this (which has worked in the past)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/978746/how-to-mount-ntfs-partition-in-ubuntu-16-04

What happens when you mount sda1?

sda is listed as the recovery partition,.. and likely doesn't have any of the User data.

That being said,.. I'll check that.

Follow up, yes I can mount and access /dev/sda1.

But there isn't anything there other than the recovery.

Interesting, that's so weird.

dbeato

What does this command show:

lsblk -f

gjacobse

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

What does this command show:
lsblk -f

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dbeato

@gjacobse But that is now that command...

gjacobse

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@gjacobse But that is now that command...

redacted

dbeato

@gjacobse still not the command

gjacobse

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@gjacobse still not the command

lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE   LABEL    UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
loop0  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-logs/45
loop1  squashfs                                               /snap/core/4917
loop2  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-calculator/180
loop3  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-system-monitor/51
loop4  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-characters/103
loop5  squashfs                                               /snap/gtk-common-themes/319
loop6  squashfs                                               /snap/core/6130
loop7  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-logs/37
loop8  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-calculator/260
loop9  squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/70
loop10 squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57
loop11 squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74
loop12 squashfs                                               /snap/gnome-characters/139
loop13 squashfs                                               /snap/skype/66
loop14 squashfs                                               /snap/gtk-common-themes/818
loop15 squashfs                                               /snap/core/6259
sda                                                           
├─sda1 ntfs     Recovery 027ED5D87ED5C497                     /media/windows
├─sda2 vfat              30D7-1C6E                            /boot/efi
├─sda3                                                        
├─sda4                                                        
└─sda5 ext4              ade0b36a-cebd-41e7-bf39-f3950255dfcd /

JaredBusch

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows from Ubuntu:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows from Ubuntu:

Installed Windows, shrank drive, installed Ubuntu 18.04.

Unable to mount the Windows drive even though shutdown is clean.

Windows is (or should be) sda4,..

sda1 - ntfs
sda2 - vfat /boot/efi
sda3 -
sda4 -
sda5 ext4

I'm following this (which has worked in the past)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/978746/how-to-mount-ntfs-partition-in-ubuntu-16-04

What happens when you mount sda1?

sda is listed as the recovery partition,.. and likely doesn't have any of the User data.

That being said,.. I'll check that.

Follow up, yes I can mount and access /dev/sda1.

But there isn't anything there other than the recovery.

That is all that should be there.. your list proved that.

dbeato

I believe this is because of the Windows 10 does not fully restart, it actually hibernates... maybe disable fastboot on Windows 10. Then try to mount it again.

gjacobse

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

I believe this is because of the Windows 10 does not fully restart, it actually hibernates... maybe disable fastboot on Windows 10. Then try to mount it again.

Turned off,.. still getting same error that sda4 doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS

black3dynamite

@dbeato said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

I believe this is because of the Windows 10 does not fully restart, it actually hibernates... maybe disable fastboot on Windows 10. Then try to mount it again.

Or hold down the Shift key and restart.

gjacobse

2019-01-28 20_07_00-C__WINDOWS_system32_diskpart.exe.png

System shows it's NTFS - so,.. what the what?

gjacobse

Windows DUMBASS-ory..

Talking to my brother, he mentioned some 'issues' with Windows not releasing the lock on the partition. He suggested and this is the really dumb part on windows.

To boot Windows and RESTART normally.

Since grub starts Ubuntu by default, it booted normally into Ubuntu.

I did the lsblk -f as before, only this time for /dev/sda4 - there is a UID for it. AND it shows as NTFS..

so,.. FFS Windows,.. FYS. now,.. to see how to prevent this stupidness in the future.

Dashrender

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

Windows DUMBASS-ory..

Talking to my brother, he mentioned some 'issues' with Windows not releasing the lock on the partition. He suggested and this is the really dumb part on windows.

To boot Windows and RESTART normally.

Since grub starts Ubuntu by default, it booted normally into Ubuntu.

I did the lsblk -f as before, only this time for /dev/sda4 - there is a UID for it. AND it shows as NTFS..

so,.. FFS Windows,.. FYS. now,.. to see how to prevent this stupidness in the future.

This why someone suggested that you go into Windows and do a full shutdown with shift shutdown.... normal shutdowns now aren’t full shut downs to allow the system to boot faster.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

Windows DUMBASS-ory..

Talking to my brother, he mentioned some 'issues' with Windows not releasing the lock on the partition. He suggested and this is the really dumb part on windows.

To boot Windows and RESTART normally.

Since grub starts Ubuntu by default, it booted normally into Ubuntu.

I did the lsblk -f as before, only this time for /dev/sda4 - there is a UID for it. AND it shows as NTFS..

so,.. FFS Windows,.. FYS. now,.. to see how to prevent this stupidness in the future.

This why someone suggested that you go into Windows and do a full shutdown with shift shutdown.... normal shutdowns now aren’t full shut downs to allow the system to boot faster.

But he did that and it made no difference

gjacobse

@JaredBusch said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@Dashrender said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

@gjacobse said in Dual Boot: Unable to access Windows NTFS Filesystem from Ubuntu 18.04:

Windows DUMBASS-ory..

Talking to my brother, he mentioned some 'issues' with Windows not releasing the lock on the partition. He suggested and this is the really dumb part on windows.

To boot Windows and RESTART normally.

Since grub starts Ubuntu by default, it booted normally into Ubuntu.

I did the lsblk -f as before, only this time for /dev/sda4 - there is a UID for it. AND it shows as NTFS..

so,.. FFS Windows,.. FYS. now,.. to see how to prevent this stupidness in the future.

This why someone suggested that you go into Windows and do a full shutdown with shift shutdown.... normal shutdowns now aren’t full shut downs to allow the system to boot faster.

But he did that and it made no difference

Yup - a FULL shutdown didn't do anything more that the SHIFT shutdown.