How do I 'sanitise' an NTFS partition left 'unsafe' by Windblows?

[Fester Bestertester]

Windows (10) refuses to shut down completely (fast startup enabled?) so it leaves disks 'unsafe'. Difficulty setting up Microsloth account, so can't access help system. Is there a non-MS means of getting the NTFS partition(s) to open read-write?

[Snowhog]

In your searching, did you find this?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/8431...n-unsafe-state

[Fester Bestertester]

Thanks for that, Snowhog! Another of my 'senior moments', perhaps also a measure of how often I use that evil system ...
Cheers
FBt

[sithlord48]

there is also an application ntfsfix you can use if you don't have access to windows. (its part of the ntfs-3g package)

sudo ntfsfix <device>

[GreyGeek]

The best sanitation I know of for an errant NTFS system is to swap it out for a Btrfs system running under the Linux distro of your choice!