I booted up my Windows machine yesterday, and it started fixing a drive that's set to automount in my Linux system. Now, I'm unable to boot and I'm trapped in this frustrating emergency mode. The drive in question is just for storage; neither of my operating systems is installed on it. I'm using CarchyOS, which is based on Arch Linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
3 Answers
What filesystem is on the drive? If it’s NTFS, boot from a Live USB and consider using the GRUB recovery shell to temporarily disable mounting via /etc/fstab until you sort out the issue. It’s a good way to troubleshoot without getting stuck.
Try booting from live media and using the 'chroot' command to access your system. You can add 'nofail' to your fstab for those drives. This way, if they fail to mount, it won't prevent your system from booting. This method helped me with my extra drives before.
Sounds like you’re running into some issues trying to manually mount the drive after adding 'nofail'. Have you checked if the Fast Boot mode is disabled in Windows? Sometimes that can cause issues accessing NTFS partitions from Linux.
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