Can't mount partitions

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I can’t mount any of my partition except for the nixos one. When I tried to mount it through console, I got this error. mount: /test: unknown filesystem type ‘ntfs’.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

It worked yesterday and today before oc-ing my ram, but now it stopped working. It’s a problem for all partitions. The commands I gave in console before this were:

[maksz@nixos:~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda1
[sudo] password for maksz:
mount: /dev/sda1: can’t find in /etc/fstab.

[maksz@nixos:~]$ sudo mkdir /test

[maksz@nixos:~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /test

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Sometimes, there might be collisions when mounting partitions by name. Instead, you can try mounting them by UUID:

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I think it just forgot how to read ntfs, since that looks like the problem, but I don’t know how to reteach it. (it didn’t fix anything for any drive)

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What’s your current configuration for this?

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What do you mean? What configuration?

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For example, for an ntfs partition, you’d have something like this set up.

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All I did was sudo mount /dev/sda1 /test, but that doesn’t work too and also recommends me dmesg(1) for more information

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Alright, are you sure that’s the correct partition? What does running sudo fdisk -l give you?

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Yep, this is the partition I want to connect

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Okay, I could reproduce this. You just need to add the filesystem type with -t ntfs3 when you mount :

$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt -t ntfs3
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I have the same problem I had earlier. sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt -t ntfs3
[sudo] password for maksz:
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call. Same with sdb1&sdb2 and the nvme drive with my old windows.

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Do you see any related messages when you run sudo dmesg?

Edit: Also, does mounting with UUID work?

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="<Copy this>" TYPE="ntfs" ...
$ sudo mount UUID="<Paste here>" /mnt -t ntfs3
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sda1: volume is dirty and “force” flag is not set! Could this also be the reason, why windows started “bootlooping” before letting me select the partition I want to boot windows off? And how do I set flags, since after making a partition with some flags to install this os, I forgot.

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All right, according to the Arch Wiki, you can clear the dirty flag with:

$ nix-shell -p ntfs3g
$ sudo ntfsfix --clear-dirty /dev/sda1
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Thank you so much! I’ll try to check if windows works.

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