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Bapi Saha
Asked: 2019-04-03 08:25:11 +0800 CST

Unable to create new folder. (ctrl+shift+N) is not working in my HDD partitions folder

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I have Windows10 in my HP laptop. Also I have 500GB HDD. I partition this HDD in windows10 and make three 100GB partition , all are in NTFS . Then two days before I install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in my laptop. This partions are seen by clicking in other locations tab in ubuntu , it is shown as /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6 and /dev/sda7 . Yesterday I successfully create folder on /dev/sda5 by right click . But today I am unable to create new folder ( either by right-click or by ctrl+shift+N ) . What can I do ?

dual-boot partitioning mount hard-drive

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The problem is caused by Windows 10 default fast Startup setting.

    Boot Windows

    Turn off Fast Startup in Systems Settings:

    1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Power Options icon.
    2. Click on the Choose what the power buttons do link on the left side. (see screenshot below)

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    1. Click on the Change settings that are currently unavailable link at the top. (see screenshot below)

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    1. Under Shutdown settings, uncheck the Turn on fast startup box, click on the Save changes button. (see screenshot below)

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    Source: TenForums

    Boot Ubuntu

    The new partitions should now work as expected.

    Hope this helps

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  2. In a dual boot system, from ubunut itself you can try these two commands to fix the read only error and the associated error of ' cannot create directory ‘path/to/dir’: No such file or directory'

    First try remounting the partition(say /dev/sdb2) with write options using the command

    sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb2

    If it shows error 'No such file or directory' when you try to cretae new directory, then run ntfsfix followed by remount command(assuming this is the same ntfs partition used in windows)

    sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb2
sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb2
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