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Error in mounting sda problem in Ubuntu 16.04 (sda5)

This is a series of posts on problems and issues in using Ubuntu /Windows10 Parallel installation

This is a common problem that occur when you want to access files from Ubuntu OS (which is paralelly installed) stored in Windows 10 OS in the same hardware.

Suppose, you want to access sda5. Then, to fix this quickly, in terminal, run following command.

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda5

Then type the password.

[sudo] password for UserName: 

This will display follwing lines.

Mounting volume... The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... 
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda5 was processed successfully.

Finally, if above line is displayed, you can now access files from Ubuntu.



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