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HI i have a NTFS drive insalled on my machine runing ubuntu 20.04 and on the file explorer if i go to other locations, i can see the drive and can click and view the files inside it.

HOwever, when i try to copy new files into it, it says it cant and i dont have permisison to?

I then right clicked the ntfs drive and when to its properties and then onto the permision option and ticked everything to allow me, owner and "others" to read/write on it but it still wont let me copy files into it?

ANy suggestions?

Jono
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    Have you used Windows to connect to that drive? In that case, maybe Windows uses 'Fast Startup', which is a kind of semi-hibernation. Thiis leaves the file systems connected at 'shutdown' with a 'dirty' flag, and linux stays away from writing to it. A work-around is to reboot Windows instead of shutting it down, and then, at the UEFI/BIOS stage of the boot process poweroff. A solution is to turn off Fast Startup is Windows. -- But there might also be other problems. Please keep us informed about the progress of your issue. – sudodus Jun 30 '20 at 09:50
  • i have a dual boot setup, 3 hdds, one with windows OS, one with ubuntu and the other is just a data drive formated in ntfs(the one i am trying to access) – Jono Jun 30 '20 at 10:14
  • Yes, I see. Do you know if your Windows system is using Fast Startup (it is the standard setting in Windows 10)? – sudodus Jun 30 '20 at 10:16
  • it probably is, i am not sure. how do i check? – Jono Jun 30 '20 at 10:24
  • Search the internet for turn off fast startup -- for example this link – sudodus Jun 30 '20 at 10:57
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    No mark it doesnt, the ntfsfix does not work. i will try rebooting to windows and disabling the fast start – Jono Jun 30 '20 at 12:00

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Nowadays there is no problem mounting a NTFS disk for read and write in Ubuntu. To make it effortless you can do like this, it's quite a few steps:

  1. Find out what the UUID is for the NTFS disk. blkid -l will give you a list like:

    /dev/sda1: UUID="9272-FF30" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="ed4acd72-8320-45db-b661-1976189c1da5"
/dev/sda2: UUID="f9a58a66-94ea-4ab7-a214-019912085453" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0852f2b3-cf16-4c9e-9886-82e0b35c81cf"
/dev/sda3: UUID="558179d8-c6c3-41e3-9cd7-08da53b68df8" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0ad691be-1d64-4ba1-bf70-8682818aa6b8"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="BC2E8B1A2E8ACD38" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="6dbd7f38-fe9e-4eb5-9769-2803188075b8"

    If you get more than one NTFS partition you can find which one by looking further with lsblk and/or blkid -l but for now I assume that we found the NTFS partition above.

  2. Make sure you have the NTFS driver installed

    dpkg -l | grep ntfs

    which, if installed, will give an output something like this:

    ii  libntfs-3g883   1:2017.3.23AR.3-3ubuntu1   amd64  read/write NTFS driver for FUSE (runtime library)
ii  ntfs-3g         1:2017.3.23AR.3-3ubuntu1   amd64  read/write NTFS driver for FUSE

  3. If you don't get any output with the dpkg command then install the NTFS driver with:

    sudo apt install ntfs-3g

    which will install the NTFS runtime as well

  4. Make a mount point for the drive e.g. sudo mkdir /mnt/ntfs (name it whatever you like, this is just an example) and make it yours with sudo chown jonathan:jonathan /mnt/ntfs (if jonathan is your user name)

  5. Edit /etc/fstab and add the line (with the UUID you found):

    UUID=BC2E8B1A2E8ACD38 /mnt/ntfs ntfs-3g   defaults,nls=utf8,umask=027,dmask=027,fmask=137,uid=1000,gid=1000,windows_names 0 0

    where the masks give you read/write for everything on the drive so be careful if this is your Windows installation disk. Also note that I assume that you have user and group ID 1000. If not enter your values. If you don't know, find out with id -u jonathan and id -g jonathan

  6. Mount it with sudo mount /mnt/ntfs. It will automatically mount at every start. If you still have problems with write permissions you have to turn off fast startup in Windows as suggested by @sudodus in the comments above.

Serafim
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