I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint installed on the same laptop. Three days earlier, I tried resetting Windows 10 completely but it got stuck at 9%. Turns out, it is a common issue. I forced shut down and tried resetting it again but same result. And now the Windows Installation files are corrupted.
I don't know the solution to repair the Windows so I started using Linux. I am a complete newbie to Linux.
I have 1 TB of total space and during installation of Linux, I allotted it only 100GB. Since I can't use Windows anymore, I want to access the Windows drive and two other drives and have read and write permission.
Please, help me. I don't care about the Window 10 files.
Some information:
- Output of
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 9CCAB439-717E-4C22-BB81-5D4E3694A471
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1026048 1288191 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 1288192 980335163 979046972 466.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 980336640 1206828699 226492060 108G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 1206831680 1695617517 488785838 233.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 1695619568 1926131717 230512150 109.9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda7 1926133760 1934735359 8601600 4.1G Linux swap
/dev/sda8 1934735360 1935656959 921600 450M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda9 1935656960 1953523711 17866752 8.5G Windows recovery environment
- Output of
sudo mount -a
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
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I have tried some solutions on Internet, but nothing worked and in all honesty I had no idea what I was doing or what I should do. I know nothing about Linux. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
ntfsfix -d
can help you clear the dirty flag. I wonder if it's better to copy all the files you want from the dirty filesystems (mounted read-only) to another drive, and then just re-format their partitions and copy the files back if desired.uid=
/gid=
mount option was used.Microsoft
directory underEFI/
in the ESP first. Depending on your setup, the ESP might be mounted on/boot
or/boot/efi
.