I dual boot my laptop with windows 10 and fedora 33. This is because there is some software that only runs under windows related to my medical devices.
What I do is upload the data and create a report based on the data which I save as a pdf file. I then boot back into fedora and am happy until the next time I need to upload the data.
I have a script that I use to mount the ntfs volume and copy the report files over to fedora so I can review them without needing to boot back into windows.
About 2 weeks ago my windows was updated to the 21H1 version and that seems to have broken mounting the ntfs volume in linux. (It mounted fine in versions 20H1 and 20H2).
The message I began getting said something to the effect that windows was hibernated and the volume could not be mounted read/write and was mounted as read only.
I went through several iterations of shutdown & restart windows, clean shutdown, clean restart, each time with the same error on attempting to mount the ntfs volume.
I then filed a bug on ntfs-3g about the failure to mount properly. I followed the advice from maintainers about power settings, running chkdsk, etc., all to no avail.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1988745
The final determination was that It appears windows changed something in their shutdown procedure such that it now leaves a hibernation file on the disk (even with a normal shutdown or restart) that fakes linux into believing windows is hibernated and not a clean shutdown or restart, preventing a normal read/write mount of the ntfs volume.
The workaround I was given, and that seems to work for me was the command
sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,remove_hiberfile <device> <mount point>
I mentioned that this command could cause problems if windows was actually hibernated.
The bug is still open.
I wanted to let people know that there is a problem that occurs when updating to win10 version 21H1 and suggest that they not update to that version until a fix has been developed.