Unable to access external drive with ntfs
I have an external drive for some backups (I also use a network server for storage, but that is a story for another day…) that is ntfs based to allow both Linux and Windows (what?) access.
Recently I had to copy some files from a Windows machine and simply attached the external drive. To my surprise Windows made a special surprise of messing up with the drive. First attempt was to use Windows native disk tools, but had no luck with that. I tried to plug it to a different Linux machine, but, again, had no success.
Long story short, if you want to recover your access use the ntfsfix tool that is part of the ntfs-3g package. It took less then 1 minute to have everything corrected.
Curious how an open-source Linux-based tool is better on ntfs than Windows.