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So, today I thought it would be clever to take some leftover free space from my hard drive and create a partition I could share between Linux and Windows, as I know that Windows is "protective" of it's system partition due to the Fast Startup system.

However Windows apparently had a different idea in mind.

The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda4': 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.

While I know this may be remedied by disabling Fast Startup, I would like to avoid doing so.

By using nftsfix I was able to get the partition mounted in RW mode.

Long Story Short:

Is it possible to prevent Windows from keeping a disk's Metadata in it's cache?

If not, how can I setup Linux to run nftsfix on the partition then mount it (preferably with fstab), and would any data be lost using this method?

EDIT: The main reason I wish to keep Fast Startup in tact is due to Startup times. I need to be able to switch to Windows and back quickly in my work setting, sometimes several times in an hour.

Lektonic
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I'm sorry to tell you that you can't have Fast Startup and Linux living in the same hard disk.

However, you can turn off your computer completely to get into Linux, to do it open a Command Prompt and turn it off with:

shutdown -s -t 0

Where:

shutdown: Shutdowns your computer

-s: Parateter to shutdown your computer

-t 0: Turn it off programatically, wait 0 seconds to do it

You can do this everytime you want to start Windows after Linux and you don't have to disable the Fast Startup. The next time you restart Windows it will do a cold start-up, and a fast one after that, until you shut it down coldly again.

fernando.reyes
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