Hi all,
I received an usb stick from a window$ user
I cannot mount this stick with the error volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!
Dmesg says:
[48801.887161] usb 3-4: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[48802.011548] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1666, bcdDevice= 0.01
[48802.019845] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[48802.019849] usb 3-4: Product: DataTraveler 3.0
[48802.019851] usb 3-4: Manufacturer: Kingston
[48802.019853] usb 3-4: SerialNumber: 60A44C413C8CF2906988EB9B
[48802.045315] usb-storage 3-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[48802.045434] scsi host5: usb-storage 3-4:1.0
[48802.045530] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[48802.048586] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[48803.085064] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[48803.085305] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[48803.086281] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 60437492 512-byte logical blocks: (30.9 GB/28.8 GiB)
[48803.086512] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[48803.086516] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 4f 00 00 00
[48803.086729] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[48803.119281] sdc: sdc1
[48803.119363] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[48811.529603] ntfs3: Enabled Linux POSIX ACLs support
[48811.529606] ntfs3: Read-only LZX/Xpress compression included
[48811.531089] ntfs3(sdc1): It is recommended to use chkdsk.
[48811.538321] ntfs3(sdc1): volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!
Framework:
Kernel 7.2.0--1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
Stable update installed 2026-08-23
NTFS related packages installed
ntfs-3g 2026.7.7-1
libntfs-3g 2026.7.7-1
ntfsprogs 2026.7.7-1
What can I do?