how to mount a dirty windows hard drive

[Liam Proven]

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?

* 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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