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I unmounted a Windows drive in Linux in order to remount it so I would have read/write access to the Windows files. I can no longer boot into Windows but still have access to the files. Is there a way to fix this?
The command I issued to mount the Windows partition read/write-enabled was
mount -o rw,mount,rw -t ntfs /dev/sda4 /mnt/ntfs/
Try to use windows cd/usb key and run "Repair my system".
Generally, if You want to use dual boot, and read windows partition, you should disable so called "Fast boot" feature in Windows. It is nicely explained here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/452071/why-disable-fast-boot-on-windows-8-when-having-dual-booting
mount -o rw,mount,rw -t ntfs /dev/sda4 /mnt/ntfsdoes not remount your partition, and it has two "rw" flags. I think you meantmount -o remount,rw -t ntfs /dev/sda4 /mnt/ntfs. What errors are you getting when you try to boot Windows?ntfsis a pure linux kernel implementation which lacks features (and increases the chances of corrupting something when used read/write). You should be usingntfs-3gwhich is a fuse implementation, that while lacking pure kernel's speed, would have more features. Its manpage also gives a warning about windows' hibernation