Unable to mount a USB thumb drive that us formatted NTFS

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But I would probably bet dolphins to doughnuts that your ‘issue’ is that of the new ntfs3 module not allowing to mount partitions marked with a ‘dirty bit’, unlike the previous module ntfs-3g which would force-mount them anyways.

The ‘dirty bit’ is most usually the result of not properly dismounting the drive in windoze and/or windoze anti-feature 'Fast Startup" which actually ensures your system does not shut down but hibernates instead.

There are many similar threads here on the forum, including these:

https://forum.manjaro.org/search?q=ntfs%20wrong%20fs%20type%20bad%20option%20order%3Alatest

Your approach should be as follows:

• Use windoze or a clone like Hirens to run chkdsk on the drive/partition
• In the future properly dismount drives and/or disable ‘Fast Startup’ for windoze.

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• You may optionally disable ntfs3 in favor of ntfs-3g, but know that you will be ignoring safety mechanisms and possibly causing continual damage to your data or drive.