unable to see old NTFS partitions after installing ParrotOS

[Yelderim_1]

Hi

i just finished installing Parrot OS on my PC windows removed completely from my PC now. my PC has three drives.
1- 1TB NVMe (OS partition installed Parrot OS)
2- 1 TB SSD (NTFS partition - no OS Installed)
3- 1 TB SSD (NTFS partition - no OS Installed)

the problem is when i try to open any of those NTFS partition, i get prompt to authenticate, i tried my old windows password it didn’t work, i also tried my parrot OS password but it didn’t work also.

if i recall when i used Ubuntu, i was still able to use my NTFS partitions, not sure it’s possible with Parrot OS?

screenshot of the error attached

• Parrot version in use 5.3 **

• Kernel version 6.1.0-1parrot1-amd64*
  

  

[Masmer (Masmer Snerd)]

Hi @Yelderim_1

Do you have ntfs-3g installed?

If the NTFS partitions were used with Windows 10/11, they may have BitLocker encryption on them automatically. (I recently installed Windows 10 Home on 3 laptops and Microsoft automatically encrypted the Windows partitions.)

Another possibility is that the partitions might not have been powered off correctly (under Windows) giving them “dirty bits”. If so, you can clear the bits by running the following for each:

sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdX#

i.e. sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdb2