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"Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use."

Asked by Gianfranco

When mounting a volume (a secondary volume) formatted in windows (now empty and never used in windows after the format), I received the following error message.

$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 1) Failed to mount '/dev/hdb1/': Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.

I tried to follow the suggestion referred "type the command line : mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/hdb1/media/Volume -o force" but nothing happened.

Could anybody help me?

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

Hi,

Open terminal and enter:
sudo mkdir /media/hdb1
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 -o force

Hope that helps.

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canucked (canucked) said : 		#2

If you dual-boot with Windows (or have access to a Windows machine if this is an external hard drive), you could always run Windows' scandisk/chkdsk on that volume to check for errors. In XP, open Windows Explorer, right-click on the volume, click Properties, go to Tools, then Check For Errors. Also, be sure to shutdown Windows properly, or if it's an external hard drive, Safely Remove it.

Good luck!

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Gianfranco (gianfranco-giancaterino) said : 		#3

It was easier than I thought! I just installed the partition editor for GNOME... and it worked! I formatted the hd, previously formatted in windows, I rebooted my ubuntu and... issue closed.
Thank you everybody for your help!