Manjaro fails to mount, fix or identify my F drive of my HDD

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Manjaro fails to mount, fix or identify my F drive of my HDD. It’s working and healthy since I saw it when I booted on my Windows 10. I checked my F drive on my windows as well, they told me it’s fine.

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There is no F drive - drive letters is a Windows thing - on Linux there is only devices and partitions and only partitions can be mounted.

NTFS is a proprietary Microsoft filesystem and the Linux driver is reverse engineered.

Be sure to disable Windows Fast Startup.

If you need to share data between Windows and Manjaro Linux - use a device with exFAT filesystem.

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This might help you understand why there is no F drive:

And this will probably help with the dual-booting:

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Dear Dev,

In my Manjaro system my drives are recognized as sdb1, sdb2, sdb3, sdb4 and sdb5. Among which sdb1 is windows something so it’s neglected by Manjaro and it’s fine its just 100mb. sdb2, sdb3 and sdb4 are recognized by Manjaro; they’re also dynamic, simple and NTFS. Windows Fast Start up is disabled. sdb5 is missing among them.

I tried to ntfs check it it showed me invalid volume, or volume may be corrupt. I tried chkdsk on windows and it showed your drive is healthy and working fine, no errors. I tried mounting the drive but again received an error.

I hope you can understand my situation and help me.

Thanking you,
Your Sincerely,
Dipsana

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That trigger a memory - windows dynamic disk is similar to Linux LVM and is only supported on Windows - and possibly why you cannot mount it - the usual way.

Please see section 3 → Dynamic disks - ArchWiki

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