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In my dual boot laptop, I am unable to save or copy files to windows partitions.

Widows has been at war with Linux from day 1 . Copy the file to a usb stick first and save yourself a lot of mucking about.

If your situation is that you cannot access the drives at all:

in your Windows should be done the complete shutdown (not just hibernation, because hibernated windows will lock the drives) and probably also the quick start should be disabled.

Maybe I'm wrong and somebody will correct me.

In addition to what @Feek advises, it would be a good idea to run a file system check within Windows to ensure any errors are corrected. Writing to Windows partitions are generally only blocked if the prttiton is locked or something is flagged, which prevents writing to the partition.

Hello @Ramachandra Iyer
Couple checks:

• In a Terminal

  1. issue the mount command

  2. On the NTFS partition where you cannot 'write' data to, look for either 'rw' or 'ro'

  3. If its 'ro', umount the partition, then remount it for example

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     mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2

  4. If the 'ro' problem remains, you must start a windows allowing windows to repair

• Open Gparted from PUP's Menu

  1. Allow GParted to dismount the NTFS partition

  2. On the NTFS partition where you cannot 'write' data to, look for the yellow/red flag on its line

  3. Use GParted Menu as well as its line options for a description of what it shows as the problem

Hope this helps

After update Windows 10 and disabling fastboot through command line ( got idea from googling), now able to write and copy between partitions!!!!. Thank you very much.