Fix Unable to Mount Some Ntfs Partition

Posted on Mar 2, 2025

Recently udisks (which is the daemon dolphin uses in the background to mount the disk) has changed it’s defaults from the older ntfs-3g implementation to the newer ntfs3 driver in the kernel. Said driver is less lenient when there’s a ntfs disk corruption present of some sort. The best way to fix this would be to run a chkdsk from Windows to make sure there aren’t any filesystem inconsistencies.

chkdsk /f /r

If that’s not an option, you can ignore the corruption that prevents ntfs3 from mounting the disk by either mounting it with the “force” command or using

ntfsfix -d /dev/sdXY

where /dev/sdXY is the device node of the partition

see: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=291894