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Weird Windows 10 boot error that Ubuntu (kind of) fixes

I have Windows 10 installed on my SSD. When I try to boot the computer, the loading Windows spinner is (always) stopping after 2 seconds and it freezes my computer. I found that if I then boot Ubuntu ...
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Can't boot ubuntu 18.04 after resizing ntfs partition using miniTotal partition wizard

I have windows 10 and ubuntu 18.04 installed I was running out of space in my root partition, so i wanted to shrink the ntfs partition and expand the root partition. I tried to shrink using the disk ...
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Why is Windows reporting an empty NTFS partition, when files are written/viewable by Linux? - (happened with exFAT too !!!)

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS; Windows 10; Lenovo Ideapad i7. The exfat and NTFS drivers are at highest available upgrade (Ubuntu). Photorec and testdisk are being ran in Linux. Please note that this particular ...
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Lost my Ubuntu created files by booting Windows

I had created on Ubuntu a couple of directories on an NTFS partition, so far so good. Then I booted Windows 10 and when I tried accessing the the first one I got a message "file system corrupt and ...
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Shared use of NTFS HDD with Ubuntu and Windows 10

I have been using a desktop computer setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7 on separate SSD's and both operating systems using the same NTFS formatted HDD for data storage. I recently added Windows 10 to the ...
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Windows 10 live USB can't find installation partition

Recently, I've decided to install Windows 10 on my Ubuntu machine but in a separate partition so that I could dual-boot it. However, the installer wouldn't recognize the NTFS partition I created when ...
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Cannot mount NTFS partitions because of Windows 10?

I have a multi-boot computer, one of the partitions is taken by Windows 10 technical preview and another one is also ntfs. Booting in an Ubuntu-eOS system I get this errors when trying to mount these ...
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