Ubuntu - Fix mount NTFS partition error
If you see this error when trying to mount a NTFS partition (/dev/sda5 for example) in Ubuntu: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details Run this command line to fix and remount again: sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda5 ntfsfix is provided by the ntfs-3g package of Ubuntu.