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Repairing Windows 8 Installation via Ubuntu

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My HDD is on its verge of death and I have Windows 8 installed on it. I have some pretty important files there that I need to take to the Ubuntu side. My Ubuntu installation is on its separate physical hard drive.

When I click one of my Windows 8 partitions via Ubuntu (there are two), I get this error message:

Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/dugi/Store: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/dugi/Store"' 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/sdb1':

  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.

Is there a way I can fix or backup my important data from this HDD via Ubuntu? It's the only way I have direct access to these HDDs - the Windows 8 system wont boot anymore.

Help would be appreciated.

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answered 3 Years ago ettorina · Accepted Answer

"mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option." read only means you can extract the files from it. So why not follow that advice if all you want is to extract the files?

Command would be something like this:

 sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/dugi/Store -o ro,noatime

(mind the ro for readonly and none of the options in -o can have spaces besides from the one after the -o)

Otherwise you will need Windows to check the disc since the disc seems to believe it is in hibernation (and you need a working windows to boot it from)