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I uninstalled my windows through OS-Uninstaller in Ubuntu. But now i am unable to access any of the disk partitions. I am getting following error: 

Error mounting /dev/sda7 at /media/devil/Programming: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda7" "/media/devil/Programming"' 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/sda7': 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.

What to do? I guess I have to install windows again.. right?

Marcin Kaminski
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Ashwin Yardi
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I had the same issue where I had 2 HDD's, 1TB (windows) and 1TB (server 2012).I was wondering about the same thing.

Basically,This happens because Windows 8, also Including Windows Server 2012 have "fast boot option" enabled by default which leads the hard disk not to shut-down Completely.

Since some motherboards have an option to disable it during the boot. If not all you have/had to do was

  • Boot up the windows and launch control panel.
  • Look for Power Options and under Advanced power option there is grayed out checkbox says fast boot. You can make this option available by clicking on "Change settings that are currently available"
  • uncheck the fast boot option.
  • Now shutdown the computer and boot into Ubuntu.

Do

sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS

You should be able to mount the desired partitions, Now for example

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb3 Desktop/ntfs

Good Luck.

heavyguidence
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