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I did a backup of my Linux computer on an NTFS hard drive.

When I try to delete or copy some directories in windows I have the following message: "Coun't not find this item" but with the explorer, I can click on the folder and access the files inside it.

I was thinking maybe the file system was not correct because I use Linux for the writes but chkdsk /r /x don't find any error.

How to fix this problem?

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Older versions of Linux NTFS drivers do have issue when writing to NTFS-formatted partitions, and required use of a cleanup operation afterwards to finish journaling, etc. Newer drivers should do better, so update drivers, e.g. to NTFS-3G.

Also, be sure write operations are completed, since both Linux and Windows use write-caching on permanent drives. Try calling umount after all writes are finished.

In some cases, I've had to create a file on the Linux (ext4) partition and then use SFTP to transfer to a Windows-mounted NTFS drive, but that was also because of security issues, so that work-around should not be needed, in your case.

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  • It's a 4 year old Ubuntu install so not so old. How to launch cleanup Operation? Is there anything better than chkdsk? I don't understand how I can see the error message and chkdsk cannot detect anything
    – Fractale
    Commented Feb 6, 2020 at 18:46

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