Problem : The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state in ubuntu or you are not able to move files The main cause of this is because of windows unexpectedly shutdown. windows suddenly hang and when restart ubuntu it show mount error . After upgrading to Windows 8, I often see an error “ The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully ” when I try to mount the NTFS partitions in Ubuntu. The full text of error is as following: Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/itsfoss/01BC76G7Z2628FB0: Command-line `mount -t “ntfs” -o “uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177” “/dev/sda5” “/media/itsfoss/01BC76G7Z2628FB0″‘ exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda5’: Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or