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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: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6555659
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:

  1. I am unable to load Windows. (It is asking for recovery media which I don't have right now.)
  2. In Ubuntu I am unable to mount any Windows partitions.

Error message:

Error mounting /dev/sda8 at /media/dew/Songs, Videos & 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 & 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?

karel
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Rakesh Godhala
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  • sudo mount -t "ntfs" -o "ro,uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda8" "/media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies" – Anders F. U. Kiær Dec 11 '13 at 13:39
  • fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: No such file or directory , In the folder /media/dew/ there are no directories . It is completely empty – Rakesh Godhala Dec 11 '13 at 13:44
  • mkdir -p '/media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies' then repeat. – Anders F. U. Kiær Dec 11 '13 at 13:45
  • I created a folder there . but it is still not accessible.fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: No such file or directory – Rakesh Godhala Dec 11 '13 at 13:52
  • 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 I tried the same command with -ro instead of -o. then the following error was seen. `fuse: failed to access mountpoint /media/dew/Songs, Videos & Movies: No such file or directory – Rakesh Godhala Dec 11 '13 at 13:55
  • no, not instead of -o, the -otells that the following text block will be options. And we wanna give it the additional option read only, ro,, as it will let you mount the partition. – Anders F. U. Kiær Dec 11 '13 at 14:03
  • Not a duplicate since this question is asking how to mount the volume without a working Windows install. – psusi Dec 15 '13 at 19:05

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ntfs-3g has an option to deal with this kind of situation: remove_hiberfile (see man page).

The man page goes on to warn about the consequences of using that option.

Please note, means that the saved Windows session will be completely lost. Use this option under your own responsibility.

If those are acceptable for you, you can try to mount your partition by adding remove_hiberfile to your -o string.

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