Shutdown Windows 10 truly for a dual booting system

Question

It seems that "Shut down" in Windows 10 actually means "Shut down and hibernate". This has caused my NTFS partitions cannot be automatically loaded on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) on my dual-booting laptop. There will be an error message basically saying

Unable to access “My Drive”

Error mounting /dev/sdb4 at /media/D Center: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o  "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb4" "/media/D Center"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb4': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume
read-only with the 'ro' mount option

After a "hard" shutdown by pressing Shift while clicking on "Shut down", Windows actually shuts down, and the NTFS partitions can then be automatically mounted by Linux in another bootup. This issue only occurs recently after my upgrade of the Windows OS and BIOS.

My question is the following: is there any way to make the "Shut down" on the menu as the truly/hard shutdown by default? Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you tried to disable the Fast Startup function? Here is a good article that describes what it does, along with the potential drawbacks:

The Pros and Cons of Windows 10’s “Fast Startup” Mode

That being said, Fast Startup is on by default and disabling it will probably alleviate your problem:

1. Press + X

2. Select Power Options

   

3. Select Additional power settings on the right

   

4. Select Choose what the power buttons do on the upper-left

   

5. Select Change settings that are currently unavailable

   

6. Scroll to the bottom of the window and uncheck the box associated with Turn on fast startup

   

7. Click the button to Save changes

8. Reboot your system

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