how to mount a dirty windows hard drive

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:

> On 27 March 2014 21:51, Herman Christiani  
> <herman.christiani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Problem: can't access a backup HDD disk, ubuntu refuses to mount because
>> windows did not properly shut down, are there ways to force mount? if so
>> how?

here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1083805

is a discussion that includes the use of the "-o force" option to  
mount. I've had to use that in the past, had no apparent data loss or  
other problems.

dave

>
> * Temporarily connect it to a Windows computer and run `CHKDSK /F` on it
>
> or
>
> * Boot your PC from a Windows install or recovery CD and run `CHKDSK  
> /F` on it
>
> or
>
> * Boot your PC from BartPE Windows Live DVD and run `CHKDSK /F` on it
>
> Or, as a last resory, install and try the Ubuntu tool `ntfsfix`.
>
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