I mounted a internal hard drive on ubuntu 20.04 and i wanted to create a random test folder but terminal says the disk is read-only. How is this possible when the disk is attached internally ? How to solve this ?
#Read-only internal hard drive on ubuntu 20.04
pale gale
sinful dew
how and WHERE are you making the folder?
pale gale
how and WHERE are you making the folder?
the folder is being made on a secondary internal hard drive (non external) by using this -- mkdir test
sinful dew
other disk may have root ownership. read-access only for all others
if it is just a data storage drive, change the owner to your user account
pale gale
first find out if it's a filesystem supported by Linux
its ntfs
pale gale
hmm...when i logged back onto windows i saw some $Recycle bin folder
and some pagefile.sys file
like when I logged into windows and just clicked on a random folder then restarted and mounted the same ssd again i was able to go back into the drive and use it normally
does logging into windows have anything to do with it ?
sinful dew
Mount ALL your drives first. (click on each device in the Devices pane of file manager. Then, check info of the file system format with the following in terminal:
all on one line
lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,MODEL,FSSIZE,FSTYPE,OWNER,MOUNTPOINT
sinful dew
does logging into windows have anything to do with it ?
maybe Fast Startup is on in Windows, and playing dirty tricks. Turn it off.
sinful dew
Is it an NTFS drive with the issue, @pale gale ?
pale gale
Is it an NTFS drive with the issue, <@283085035127701504> ?
yes
sinful dew
yes
Is Windows present on any drive on that system now?
also, did you take that drive out from another Windows 10 or 11 system and placed it in current machine with Ubuntu?
pale gale
Is Windows present on any drive on that system now?
its formatted as ntfs but it doens't have windows installed on it its just used as a storage druve
pale gale
also, did you take that drive out from another Windows 10 or 11 system and place...
no that was my drive for the past 6 year
sinful dew
try this then,
sinful dew
Mount ALL your drives first. (click on each device in the Devices pane of file m...
this.
from the result of the lsblk command you can identify the drive's dev-name
then do:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdXx where X is the drive letter, and x is the number which is the NTFS partition
pale gale
hold on let me try this i need to boot into ubuntu
im on windows 10 right now let me try with the P drive
sinful dew
if Windows is ever sharing the computer with Ubuntu, you must turn off Fast Startup (Hybrid Hibernation) or else it will cause these issues.