Read Only Disk on Linux Mint Dual Boot with Windows

This morning i got problem that i can’t write anything on my partition disk in Linux mint. It’s really bad, because can’t save project on the disk too.

Problem cause: This is because i don’t shutting down properly the during open the Windows OS. This is happen because something wrong about the windows PC. I can’t logging into windows.

How to fix

At least i know 2 ways to handle this problem.

Booting to Windows

First step is booting to windows then shutting down properly. After shutting down you can going to Linux and open the disk. Voila, you can write again on the Linux Machine.

Open Terminal

Open terminal then write this code

sudo fdisk -l

You will get list of disk available on your desktop. In my case, my read only disk is on /dev/nvme0n1p2.

Then with the disk unmount, write this on terminal

sudo ntfsfix /dev/nvme0n1p2

You can change nvme0n1p2 with your read only disk.

After do that, you can mount your disk then you can read and write data on it again without need to booting to Windows first.