Installed Windows, shrank drive, installed Ubuntu 18.04.
Unable to mount the Windows drive even though shutdown is clean.
Windows is (or should be) sda4,..
Any reason you're duel booting instead of running one as a VM?
What happens when you mount sda1?
sda is listed as the recovery partition,.. and likely doesn't have any of the User data.
That being said,.. I'll check that.
Might be a stupid question, but can you still boot into the Windows install?
Could this be an issue with a newer release of NTFS? What Windows 10 version is it?
Is bitlocker or another encryption / security solution in play? I think bitlocker would have caused grief with the linux install in general, but I've never had the pleasure of messing around with it too much.
How about just booting a live linux? Can you see and automount the windows partition from a live disk?
Other possibility, is it ReFS instead of NTFS?
ExFAT- the partition is listed as NTFS in Ubuntu and Windows.
I've been able to read a exFat partition via USB.
I've not set up bitlocker, but it is listed in Disk management. And I have looked into this.
I had a weird problem once where Bitlocker turned itself on. Caused all kinds of problems with what i was trying to do (images)... killed it and life was good.
Can you try accessing that partition from a live ubuntu installer?
Follow up, yes I can mount and access /dev/sda1.
But there isn't anything there other than the recovery.
That is all that should be there.. your list proved that.
I believe this is because of the Windows 10 does not fully restart, it actually hibernates... maybe disable fastboot on Windows 10. Then try to mount it again.
Or hold down the Shift key and restart.
System shows it's NTFS - so,.. what the what?
Talking to my brother, he mentioned some 'issues' with Windows not releasing the lock on the partition. He suggested and this is the really dumb part on windows.
To boot Windows and RESTART normally.
Since grub starts Ubuntu by default, it booted normally into Ubuntu.
I did the lsblk -f as before, only this time for /dev/sda4 - there is a UID for it. AND it shows as NTFS..
so,.. FFS Windows,.. FYS. now,.. to see how to prevent this stupidness in the future.
This why someone suggested that you go into Windows and do a full shutdown with shift shutdown.... normal shutdowns now aren't full shut downs to allow the system to boot faster.