Oscar Blanco wrote:
Hello,
today I came across with something. I left WinXP
hibernating and checking in console WinXP partition is not mounted.
I tried to mount it manually
*#mount /media/windows/C*
but here is the result
*Failed to mount '/dev/hda1': Operation not permitted
*Why could not this be done safely?
Note: I do not understand the mechanisms behind this (nor the proposed
solution linked below), so I can only quote others. When in doubt, do
not trust me.
I have seen questions like this several times, as others, like me, do
not expect such problems. In your case, it seems to have worked better,
as you did not yet loose data.
The first comment I found using google was:
<http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4994/>
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you should NOT EVER hibernate one OS and then start another one.
hibernation can leave the file system in an unclean state (since it just
dumps RAM to disk, which may include cached writes that haven't been
committed yet). That's why you can't mount your NTFS volumes, and it's
really for your own protection.
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(See also the question and comments at
<http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-32457.html> for someone who
lost data and claims to have found a way around the issue.)
I have also seen posts like "I did this and now all my data is gone!"
where the response is something like: "Yes, that is expected. Restore
from backup and do not try mounting a hibernated windows partition again."
It seems to me that the advice is: do not try this on real data, unless
you know what you are doing.
/ johan
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