/dev/sda3 is my windows partition. I've never had any issue opening/mounting it before. I've tried solutions I could find online like hard shutting down Windows. And sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda3 but it doesn't work for me.

    shingamba, is it dual boot, and you can boot to Solus but not Windows?

    If that's the right assumption, have you tried checking the windows partition with Gparted?

    AFAIR, you can create an installation USB using an ISO downloaded from Microsoft that will allow you, on boot, options: either to install Windows or repair an existing Windows installation, that might be worth trying?

    If it turns out the problem is a failing drive then you may be able to recover some data using testdisk

    Both testdisk and gparted are available in Solus.

    Description : TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

    HTH

        johano No, I can boot into both no problems. I just cant access the windows partition from solus.

          Hi @shingamba ,
          Have you try to mount it via Disks ? I had this problem recently (basically with NTFS partition), and it works by mounting via Disks.

            Last try, just in case :

            sudo mkdir /mnt/windows/
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows/

            That should work, assuming ntfs-3g is installed. (maybe it needs a re install ?)

              Patrice Thanks for the suggestion. mount command actually works. But The issue with automatically mounting is still there. I tried creating the default mount point that the OS uses /run/media/shingamba/5AAE7FA3AE7F75FB
              (5AAE7FA3AE7F75FB folder doesn't exist)
              5AAE7FA3AE7F75FB this actually is the UUID of the partition. So i tried to manually create this mount point at the default location and tried to automatically mount, but another error shows up

              Which is just an increment of 1 at the end of the UUID.
              So what I think is that solus is unable to somehow create a new mount point...? I'm not sure why but, that's what this looks like.

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                Go to Disks

                select partition
                additional partition settings

                edit mount options

                turn off user sessions


                this will help you 🙂

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