On 2/10/19 7:31 AM, Bill Waddington wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:57:52 -0800, T wrote:

Dear Windows and Linux newsgroups,

I have a cross platform issue so I am cross posting.

Last week I booted two separate Windows 10 computer off a
Fedora 29 Xfce Live USB stick. I was able to
mount the Windows NTFS main drive, but only as
"read only". I could see everything and did (I was
not in one of those screw ball hidden Windows
partitions), but could not touch anything.

After unmounting, I went to clear the dirty flag (from linux),

# ntfsfix -d device (/dev/sda1)

I got as message as that the dirty flag could not
be cleared because "Windows is hibernating".

I went back into Windows, made sure the "Fast Boot"
option was off (I had been on these machines before)
and it was still off. Then I ran a

chkdsk c: /f

from Windows and rebooted, letting chkdsk run its course.

After shutting Windows back down and rebooting into Linux,
I still could not mount the C: drive as read/write.

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,
-T

I confess I haven't read through the entire thread. Apologies if this
has already been suggested or ruled out.

Do you have hybrid sleep enabled? Recent Ubuntu on my dual boot
machines and/or when booting Ubuntu live mis-identifies the Win
partition as dirty if that's enabled - even though it's not in use and
Win has been fully shut down.


Even late replies are apperceived. The consensus is that Windows
has the hard drive set to hibernate. And That I have to
manually turn it off with (admin CMD shell).

powercfg.exe /hibernate off

It is all documented in my notes. Now I have to wait for my
next Windows 10 machine to give me a hassle.

I do like to be able to edit the registry and clean off ALL the
*.tmp files in Linux Live as any nefarious software running on
Windows is not running and can't protect itself.