It is a kind of messed up situation. I installed Ubuntu 13.10 on Windows 8 which didn't display Ubuntu. I then tried Boot-Repair by opening Try Ubuntu without installing. Here is the URL:   At this instant I was unable to load Windows. Then I changed the BIOS setting from UEFI to Legacy which on restarting displayed the message No operating system found.  I installed Ubuntu 13.10 again.  Here are my problems:     I am unable to load Windows. (It is asking for recovery media which I don't have right now.)   In Ubuntu I am unable to mount any Windows partitions.    Error message:  Error mounting /dev/sda8 at /media/dew/Songs, Videos &amp; Movies: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda8" "/media/dew/Songs, Videos &amp; Movies"' 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/sda8': 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.   I guess that Windows was hibernated or didn't shutdown properly. I can't open Windows again to ensure that it is properly shutdown (as mentioned earlier I don't have recovery media). I am happy to use Ubuntu for a while until I get my recovery media, but meanwhile is there any way to mount my Windows partitions?
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Whenever I boot Ubuntu, I get a message that it cannot mount my windows partition, and I can choose to either wait, skip or manually mount.  When I try to enter my Windows partition through Nautilus I get a message saying that this partition is hibernated and that I need to enter the file system and properly close it, something I have done with no problem so I don't know why this happens.    Here's my partition table, if any more data is needed please let me know.     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1            2048    20000767     9999360   83  Linux /dev/sda2        20002814   478001151   228999169    5  Extended /dev/sda3   *   478001152   622532607    72265728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4       622532608   625141759     1304576   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5        20002816   478001151   228999168   83  Linux
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It seems that "Shut down" in Windows 10 actually means "Shut down and hibernate". This has caused my NTFS partitions cannot be automatically loaded on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) on my dual-booting laptop. There will be an error message basically saying   Unable to access “My Drive”  Error mounting /dev/sdb4 at /media/D Center: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o  "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb4" "/media/D Center"' 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/sdb4': 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   After a "hard" shutdown by pressing Shift while clicking on "Shut down", Windows actually shuts down, and the NTFS partitions can then be automatically mounted by Linux in another bootup. This issue only occurs recently after my upgrade of the Windows OS and BIOS.  My question is the following: is there any way to make the "Shut down" on the menu as the truly/hard shutdown by default? Thanks!
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After installing Ubuntu, Windows didn't boot so I installed boot repair to fix this problem. But I am getting the message displayed below.  I tried to make a new partition with unformatted file system but still receiving the same message.  How do I fix it?
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I recently installed 12.04 using WUBI installer in a separate partition. Because of some problem, I had to reinstall my Windows.   Now the problem is that my Windows has recovered, but Ubuntu is not showing up at the boot menu, even though the Ubuntu partition is intact.
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I installed Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 but when I want to access Windows drives I see this error massage:  Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/xalid/3A56A42656A3E0BD: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda1" "/media/xalid/3A56A42656A3E0BD"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': 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.   As a workaround I tried this:  mkdir /media/sd4 mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda1 /media/sd4   This allows me to access the partition, but I am unable to change anything on the drive since it was mounted as read only.   How can I access to my Windows drives whenever I login to Ubuntu?
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I'm new to Ubuntu, so can any of you give me a guide of how I can access my windows 7 files from my Ubuntu 12. I installed it using Wubi. Looked around everywhere but failed.
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How do I completely reinstall Ubuntu without affecting the Windows partition? The way I setup my laptop is like this:   Completely wiped everything using GParted from Ubuntu CD Partitioned the HDD to 3 partitions (one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, one for Storage) Installed Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit   The reason why I want to reinstall is NOTHING works in Ubuntu. No internet at all both Ethernet, and Wireless and when I figured out how to fix the wireless, there is no way to download drivers for the display so everything is just ugly and big. To make things more complicated, upgrading to 10.10 via update manager just gives me an error.  The way I see it right now is I have to try to wipe 10.04 and just install 11.04 from scratch but I'm not sure how to do that? Does anyone know?
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I installed windows 10 on my laptop in UEFI mode with HDD GPT disk format, then I installed Ubuntu 16.04LTS on another partition. So I have Ubuntu dualboot with Windows 10 now.  I also installed rEFInd (it's like GUI for you to choose between different OSs) because I don't wanna use Grub2 as the default bootloader. Now I want to have Windows 7 too, but when I boot from the USB stick, an error screen showed up saying something like  the windows boot manager is having problems due to a recent hardware change   My system is still working fine so I don't know if the problem came from my system or if the setup I want is impossible.
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I've installed Ubuntu, but when it is loading it gives following error:  mount:can't read proc/mounts. Can't fount such file or directory   However, OS continues loading but when I try to enter system using my login/password, which I entered during installation, it fails to login.  Does someone know what is problem here? I've tried reinstall ubuntu several times, but problem still occurs.  Medium from I installed: Windows 7. Installed Ubuntu with wubi, where I chose separate disk G(NTFS file format), set installation size: 18GB, chose Ubuntu in dropdownlist, language English(GB) and set username and password.
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Any of the partitions makes in Windows was not recognised by Ubuntu, or Zorin OS, or LinuxMint. It's like a blank hard disc, 250 gb free. I'm a new Linux user, but what confuses me is that I was able to install Ubuntu alongside Windows on my laptop with no problems, but on PC... no way!
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I have Windows and Linux installed on SSD, and then, I have second HDD with data. There is no Windows installation on it, just NTFS partition with data (and second partition Lenovo Recovery, but that's all and I don't need it). When I try to open it in Linux, I get folowing error:  Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/adam/Data: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2" "/media/adam/Data"' 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/sda2': 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.   But there couldn't be any hiberfile, as there is no Windows installation on this drive. I need to have read and also write permission on this drive. How could I do it? Another thing I noticed is that the partition has msftdata flag, but when I open gparted and choose "Manage flags" and remove it, it doesn't remove. How to mount the partition in write mode? Thanks.  EDIT: This is not duplicate of  as there are no Windows or hiberfile.
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I've been looking at questions like  and  and they all say "Boot into windows" which I am unable to do. Then after much cautioning, the option remove_hiberfile is suggested. I would love that option. I don't care about the programs I had open, or the data in them. The windows partition is on /dev/sda5, so I ran  sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/win   Lots of reading later...  sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda5 /mnt/win sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o debug,remove_hiberfile /dev/sda5 /mnt/win   Still no luck. It's like the remove_hiberfile option isn't being recognized, because I don't get an error when trying to use the option remove_hiberfile3ejeiofe but rather the same message.  This is the message given as a result of all above commands (adding debug did not change anything):  The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': 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.   I am able to mount read-only, but that doesn't help me much.
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Hey i have dual boot windows and Ubuntu. When i installed ubuntu all Local Disks worked well but when some time past i can not access to local disk D. I have very important files there. I cant access to windows too it is broken. When i try to mount local disk D it shows me the error:     Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda3: Command-line `mount   "/mnt/94EE82ACEE8285E8"' exited with non-zero exit status 13:   ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to   calculate free MFT records: Input/output error NTFS is either   inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a   SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows   then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very   important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it   and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.   /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation   for more details.   Can i mount local disk somehow from Ubuntu?
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About two weeks ago I had a problem with my PC that my brother wrote a question about at .  I still haven't solved the problem, so my PC is unusable now.  Now I think that it would be simpler to re-install both Win7 &amp; Ubuntu than repair them, but there're some data on their partitions. I want to recover this data.  These partitions are not mountable for some reason. I don't know why.  sudo fdisk -l about the problematic partitions:     Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1            2048     147912703    73955328   83 Linux /dev/sdb2            206848   174079999    86936576    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   And in GParted:      And the error of the mount command:  Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?   And the exact same message for /dev/sda1  How can I recover my data from those HDDs?  EDIT     I have tried to specify the type of the drive:  $ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /olddisk mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,        missing codepage or helper program, or other error        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try        dmesg | tail  or so $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /olddisk NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?   EDIT     sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb2 returns:  Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument NTFS signature is missing. Trying the alternate boot sector Unrecoverable error Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
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I have installed Ubuntu as dualboot with Windows 7. Now I'm no longer using Ubuntu so i removed the Ubuntu partition and added the unallocated space to my Windows 7 partition. But after I restart my computer it goes directly to the error:   error: unknown filesystem grub rescue &gt;   I don't have the original Windows CD to fix the MBR. Is there a way to fix this error without using the Windows CD?
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I sent this to boot.repair@gmail.com, still no response thought I could get a faster solution here.  I am running Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on separate partitions.  The message is sent is:  Boot-Repair URL:    Originally I was unable to access Ubuntu after a windows update (Ubuntu was installed using wubi). Rather than logging into Ubuntu from the Windows 7 Bootloader, it lead to the grub> command prompt.  No matter what I did here, it would not log me into linux.  As a result I uninstalled Ubuntu from the Add/Remove Programs application in Windows 7.  I then re-installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using a liveCD-USB.  This time however, I created a partition.  I then restarted and got the GRUB bootloader which loads Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with no problems, however when I select windows (listed as "Windows 7 (loader)"), it just refreshes the grub bootloader instead of loading Windows 7.  I then used the Windows 7 repair disk to run bootrec/fixmbr and bootrec/fixboot.  This led to no bootloader coming up when I started my computer.  Instead I got a blank black screen with a flashing white cursor.  I went on to do a bootrec/buildbcd and bootrec/scanos.  These did nothing to change the situation.  When I ran bootrec/scanos it said that no Windows 7 installations were present.  After this I decided to reinstall WIndows 7 only for this to do nothing to change the situation.  Afterwards I did a boot-repair in which I began to get the GRUB bootloader, which would load ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but still would not load Windows 7.  I also did a sudo update-grub which recognized Windows 7 as being installed, but still didn't fix the issue of loading Windows 7.  While running Ubuntu I have no problem accessing my WIndows 7 partition which is formatted as NTFS.  It shows all the files and folders reflecting that the re-install did take place, and it also shows all of my old applications and folders in the Windows.old folder.  I am completely stuck at this point and have no clue what I should do next.  Any help you can offer me will be greatly appreciate.  Thank You  --gap
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Actually, I have done something terribly wrong. I did not want Ubuntu 13.04 on my PC anymore. I was sick of dual-booting every time the PC starts, and I wanted to return to Windows as well. (My version is Windows XP MCE SP2). The mistake I did is that I simply used EASUS Partition Manager to delete the Ubuntu partitions. But what went wrong here is that, even when I did it, the GRUB keeps trying to load. It says that GRUB could not be found and finally ends up running GRUB Rescue.  I cannot "Repair" my PC using the Recovery Discs (containing Windows XP MCE), it only gives me an option to press "F", which will format the HDD to re-install the OS.  Although, the best part is that I can still log in to Windows. Because, when I boot from the CD's, it does not give me a "Repair" option, but only "Format" and "Quit". By using "Quit", it takes me straight to Windows.  But I do not want to keep doing this same thing every time I start my PC. Neither do I want to Format my Hard Disk. I have tried a few applications, like EasyBCD which do nothing. So I want a good solution for it.  Is their any way to install MBR through Windows or maybe Ubuntu terminal? Even if i can't access Ubuntu again? And what after installing Ubuntu again. Any safe method to uninstall it?