Why Linux Sometimes Doesn’t Recognize Windows Drives Most of the time, Linux won’t touch your Windows partitions because Windows didn’t shut down cleanly.

Learn how to make Linux-formatted NTFS Partition recognized by Windows 11/10. This partition will be compatible with both Windows and Linux.

Linux (and Unix) have generally referred to disk partitions by their "traditional" device name, such as /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda5. However, this kind of name for a particular partition can (and will ...

I can't write to the NTFS partition from Linux . A get a message saying "Read-only filesystem" when I try to write, or change permissions to anything in that partition.

The data in them can be transferred over to the SSD and changed to read/write, but they can't be added back to the data drives as the drives themselves are in read-only mode - not JUST the data.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Never try to mount or read from your Windows partition while you're running Linux in VirtualBox. This is where the danger of this method comes in.