Unable to write/copy/paste data to NTFS partitions dual boot in ubuntu
Fix Windows 10 Or 8 Partition Mounted As Read-Only On Linux When Dual Booting
I. Perform a full Windows shutdown.
To perform a full shutdown, press and hold the Shift key while you press the Shut down button on your Windows 10 or 8 OS . You can also restart Windows and reboot into your Linux distribution. In both the full shutdown and restart cases, Windows won't hibernate, so you'll be able to access the Windows drive with read/write access in Linux.
II. Disable the Windows 10 or 8 fast startup option.
You can disable fast startup in Windows 10 or 8 this by launching the Control Panel, search for Power Options and click it. Next, click on the Choose what the power buttons do item from the left-hand sidebar:
To perform a full shutdown, press and hold the Shift key while you press the Shut down button on your Windows 10 or 8 OS . You can also restart Windows and reboot into your Linux distribution. In both the full shutdown and restart cases, Windows won't hibernate, so you'll be able to access the Windows drive with read/write access in Linux.
II. Disable the Windows 10 or 8 fast startup option.
You can disable fast startup in Windows 10 or 8 this by launching the Control Panel, search for Power Options and click it. Next, click on the Choose what the power buttons do item from the left-hand sidebar:
To be able to turn off fast startup, click on Change settings that are currently unavailable:
What if you did this but the Windows partition is still mounted as read-only in Linux, or you can't access it at all? This might be caused by:
Some Windows update (this seems to especially happen with Windows 10) might have re-enabled the fast startup option, so you'll need to disable it again.
In some cases the hibernation file might be created before turning off the fast startup option, so the hibernation file is never destroyed. In this case, turn on the fast startup option, reboot Windows and turn off fast startup again.
There is also a third option - the ntfsfix command (part of the ntfs-3g package), which repairs some NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules a NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows. This might corrupt your Windows installation though, so it's not recommended, that's why I I didn't add it as an option.
But this is worth a mention because it can be useful in some cases. For example, if you no longer have Windows 10 or 8 installed, but a NTFS partition was left in a hibernated state. In such cases, you could use sudo ntfsfix /dev/NTFS_partition (for example /dev/sdb1) to get the partition to mount with full read/write access.
Some Windows update (this seems to especially happen with Windows 10) might have re-enabled the fast startup option, so you'll need to disable it again.
In some cases the hibernation file might be created before turning off the fast startup option, so the hibernation file is never destroyed. In this case, turn on the fast startup option, reboot Windows and turn off fast startup again.
There is also a third option - the ntfsfix command (part of the ntfs-3g package), which repairs some NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules a NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows. This might corrupt your Windows installation though, so it's not recommended, that's why I I didn't add it as an option.
But this is worth a mention because it can be useful in some cases. For example, if you no longer have Windows 10 or 8 installed, but a NTFS partition was left in a hibernated state. In such cases, you could use sudo ntfsfix /dev/NTFS_partition (for example /dev/sdb1) to get the partition to mount with full read/write access.
From: linuxuprising.com
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