Drive mount error - Windows died on update

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I dual boot Windows 11, and Fedora 40. 2 days ago, the 23H2 update broke windows. After installing the update it asked me to reboot, but on reboot Windows just kept rebooting, and finally booted into Safe mode and told me i had to reinstall. After reinstall I had to rebuild GRUB, then Fedora and Windows were able to reboot again. Probem now is I have 3 drives. Windows 1TB SATA SSD, Backup SATA HDD 8TB (NTFS) and 4 TB M.2 SSD which Fedora is on. Now in Fedora I can no longer Write on the Backup HDD. I tried to manually mount it, and get this error.

tomporter@fedora:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/ntfs
[sudo] password for tomporter: 
The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
or fast restarting.)
Could not mount read-write, trying read-only
tomporter@fedora:~$

I have tried booting into Windows, and shutting down. Then powering back on and going to Fedora. Also tried a reboot. Neither fixes anything. I am guessing it is because my Windows install died during a reboot on Update.

How do I fix this? I found a few posts about this issue, but couldnt find any that said what to do other then shutdown Windows/Reboot Windows

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Added dual-boot, f40, windows

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found

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1988745

tried following —

tomporter@fedora:~$ mount -t ntfs -o rw,remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /mnt/ntfs
Error opening read-only '/dev/sda2': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sda2' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/NTFS-3G-FAQ
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Ok, my 1 TB SATA SSD Which is my Windows drive also will not let me write. I also have a USB HDD and that one lets me read and write. So this is just my internal 8TB HDD and my internal SATA SSD that Windows is on. I thought the Windows drive would be fine now, as when I reinstalled Windows I deleted the partition, and reinstalled. But it gives me the same error.

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tomporter@fedora:~$ sudo ntfsinfo -fm /dev/sda2 | head
[sudo] password for tomporter: 
Volume Information 
	Name of device: /dev/sda2
	Device state: 11
	Volume Name: Data
	Volume State: 91
	Volume Flags: 0x0080
	Volume Version: 3.1
	Sector Size: 512
	Cluster Size: 4096
	Index Block Size: 4096
tomporter@fedora:~$ od -t x1 'mnt/$LogFile' | head
od: 'mnt/$LogFile': No such file or directory
tomporter@fedora:~$
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If you could encapsulate these post into </> preformatted text, we would be grateful.

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Not sure what you are asking for. Tried.

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Highlight your post, then click on the </> button.

If you do this before you post you can simply click the button, and paste your code block inside !

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This simply means that windows was shutdown with fast boot enabled.
Turn off fast boot before shutting windows down and that will disappear.

After doing this then the drive can be mounted rw instead of ro (or not mounting at all)

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That fixed me. Thanks.

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