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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you can boot back into windows, turn off quick startup/shutdown, run chkdsk or whatever on the drives, reboot back into windows then boot back into Linux and you’ll be okay.

Quick startup is a kind of weird sleep/hibernate mutant that leaves drives in an unclean state when it turns off, so the Linux drivers for ntfs say “I’m not gonna touch that possibly damaged drive”.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was a good theory, but no luck. I'm perplexed on this one.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Can a windows boot usb also not read them? If so and if you have the space to do so, it’s worthwhile to backup, reformat and repopulate the unreadable drives.