Try…
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
then browse to /mnt in the File manager
dear Knome - many thanks - i do so
well / i guess that i have to try in the read only mode… what do you guess
Either reboot it as a Windows machine and shutdown fully or move on to some form of data rescue.
There are data rescue tools but use professional data rescue if you don’t know what you are doing.
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hi there knome
from here where i am now - i have no option to access the data on SDA2 #
note i allready tried to start this with the legendary hirens usb-stick #Hirens BootCD see Hirens BootCD ( https://www.hirensbootcd.org/hbcd-v152/ )
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
This is why you disable the fast startup feature on Windows in power management as it uses hiberfile. Or it was hibernated.
Edit: If it were me i would download and create the latest Windows 10 ISO and try to boot off of it and run the startup repair.
hello dear Ricklinux
many thanks / great hints / i have those dvds here around
first lemme show what else i have tried
i tried to run gio open /mmt
see the results
hello dear Ricklinux,
many thanks for the quick reply and the interesting ideas regarding the windows tools
i firstly tried to do some things with the hibernate…
some things with Hibernate …
sudo umount /mnt
then ntfsfix:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
then i tried to mount it again
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
see whats going on here
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 Desktop]$ sudo umount /mnt
umount: /mnt: not mounted.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 Desktop]$ sudo umount /mnt
umount: /mnt: not mounted.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 Desktop]$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Mounting volume... Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
Remount failed: Operation not permitted
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 Desktop]$
and subsequently i did the following
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 Desktop]$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Code: Select all
sudo ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /mnt
but wait> i guess that i have forgotten the first line.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ gio open /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ gio open /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ ~^C
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ gio open /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo umount /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ ^C
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo umount /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ gio open /mmt
gio: file:///mmt: Error when getting information for file “/mmt”: No such file or directory
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
There is a typo there: mmt >> mnt
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hello / many thanks i will retry
see the output . there must be a typo
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ gio open /mmt
gio: file:///mmt: Error when getting information for file “/mmt”: No such file or directory
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Refusing to operate on read-write mounted device /dev/sda2.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo umount /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda2
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda2 was processed successfully.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
[liveuser@eos-2022.06.23 ~]$
i have to clear up what goes wrong here
hi there friends
see here / the first sight of success / i have some luck while looking at the filemanager
looks good so far … the data are visible
Well done.
You flung enough ntfs-3g tools at the problem that one of them must have fixed it.
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hi there good day dear Knome / i was wrong
the SDA2 was not mounted yet. It was the external HDD that was visible.
it was a misunderstanding and i will have to work on… / what a pity
see the problem / what still is going wrong…
i still have a io Error thats the hard thing.
i have to solve this error
At what point did you plug in an external HDD?
Circle, circle…
Wheel, wheel…
Good Luck.
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hello again
it was a bit confusing i have added the external hdd in the afernoon then i moved with the notebook from one room to another and while doing so i have unplugged the external hdd and afterwards i plugged it again
hmm what to do now … what would you do now! i have to fix the i o error
Why you keep using incorrect command?
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hello again good day dear Ricklinux,
many thanks for the reply - i will go and have a closer look
i run it again as
gio open /mnt
hi there good day dear ricklinux
i corrected the command to the gio open
when running this command i get back this image … which pops up
in the bottomline of the window we can read the following …Loading folder content … but honestly … nothing happens here…
Have you not tried going to the Windows 10 site and creating a live usb and then boot on it and run the repair on your Windows install so you can boot into Windows?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10ISO
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