If you try to mount an NTFS volume on Linux that was used on a Windows system and get the message below, then Windows was not shut down properly. E.g. the system may have crashed or there was a power failure.
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:
Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by
clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.
Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for
your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd -o force
Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0/dev/sda1 and you want to mount it
at /mnt/hdd, you can mount the volume read-only with
mount -r /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd. Or you can force a mount in
read-write mode with mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd -o force.
But it might be best to run Windows chkdsk or a utility
with similar functionality first, since the fact that the dirty bit
is set could indicate corruption to the volume's file structure.
