Dolphin not mounting my NTFS drive?

I wanted to check something, when I click it nothing happens & I get no password field. Just get the msg at the top of Dolphin, An error occurred while accessing ‘931.5 GiB Internal Drive (sdc1)’, the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.


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I saw in your other thread that it mounts fine on the other OS, if I recall correctly?

In that case, the partition is likely corrupt and the (presumably older) ntfs driver on the other system is ignoring the “dirty bit”.

Unless you actually need to use it with a Windows system, I’d recommend moving the data off and formatting it in e.g. ext4. But, you’ll probably need to fix the ntfs partition(s) first, in a Windows (rescue) environment. Maybe Hirens BootCD will be suitable for this.

I don’t have Windows installed anymore, my exfat will be good xBSD & Linux can read that.

If there is an issue with the filesystem, it needs to be fixed.

There is only one reliable option to repair a damaged NTFS filesystem, and that’s chkdsk, which must be run from an elevated command prompt in a Windows environment.

Typically chkdsk x: /f is all that’s needed – depending upon the severity of the damage – if there are bad sectors, for example, then other parameters should be used with chkdsk, which can potentially take a very long time to complete.

Some reading material follows, which contains (among other things) a few possible workarounds to run chkdsk if you no longer have a Windows OS.

Enjoy!

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