Unable to mount a ntfs partition after replace windows after Linux install?
Today, I replaced Win7 with Win8.1, the outcome of this action is that the grub
fails, and I had to use the LiveUSB to repair the boot grub. The easy way to do
this is to Try Ubuntu (the username is ubuntu, with no password), install the
boot-repair tool, it will find all the bootable partitions and recovery the
grub menu.
The correct ways to install that tool can be found at this page.
But when I was trying to mount the ntfs partition, the Ubuntu complains that the ntfs is not in a clean state, I found this page useful, which says the problem is due to its hibernation,(explaination), the command
| sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda* |
will solve this problem.