Hard Drive set as read only

This is a quite common question - which has been asked and answered numerous times.

TL:DR
Reboot into Windows → disable Windows Fast Startup and hybrid sleep/hibernation → run chkdsk c: /F → reboot into Manjaro

Explained
Linux ntfs driver have found the filesystem to be in a dirty state - this happens when you don’t do a clean shutdown from Windows.

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