mount – Kubuntu Can’t Write to Secondary Internal Hard Drive

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EDIT: Moved original edit to an answer down below. I thought adding it to my question above would help people find what they were looking for but apparently that's not what you're supposed to do here. Years of old-school forums trained me wrong. Sorry

Okay, so I've got a computer with 3 hard drives.

  • 1 drive is my Kubuntu boot drive (formatted as EXT4)
  • 1 drive is a Win10 drive (formatted as NTFS, FAT32, or EXT4 (depending on the partition))
  • 1 drive is a storage drive (formatted as NTFS) that should be accessible by both OS's

I have dual boot set up with GRUB and that isn't giving me any problems.

My issue is this: Kubuntu cannot write to the storage drive. I've triple checked that windows is letting go of it when it shuts down, AND Kubuntu is saying that I have read/write permissions. HOWEVER when I try to actually put a file on that drive, it's a no go. Won't do it. Says I don't have permission.

I've tried sudo chmod ugo+wx [drive location] and also sudo mount -o remount,rw [drive location] and it hasn't worked. Or it's worked until I've had to reboot the computer and then it doesn't work anymore

Does anyone have ANY idea what might be going on? I have this large storage drive holding files I'd like to be able to access in Linux and I just…. can't. It's frustrating in the extreme

Drives: physical mounted internal drives. All 3 of them. They're literally screwed into the case. There's no USB connections at all here.

System Info (and yes everything is up to date):

Operating System: Kubuntu 22.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-35-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: OMEN by HP Laptop 17-cb0xxx

Best Answer

I figured out what was going on. I had used the storage drive as a backup when I was setting up the dual boot (just incase windows crapped itslef) and apparently those windows system files were causing errors and Linux was defaulting to read-only as a safety measure.

By removing those files, I was able to get Linux to write to the drive again and the problem is solved!

I had to boot into Win10 to delete them, but I was able to remove them and now Linux has access to the drive and I'm all set!

Just wanted to edit this post and put the solution up top so that people could see it got fixed.

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