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.

--
William D Waddington

"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch