Shutdown Windows 10 truly for a dual booting system

Unable to access “My Drive” Error mounting /dev/sdb4 at /media/D Center: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb4" "/media/D Center"' 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/sdb4': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option

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Have you tried to disable the Fast Startup function? Here is a good article that describes what it does, along with the potential drawbacks:

The Pros and Cons of Windows 10’s “Fast Startup” Mode

That being said, Fast Startup is on by default and disabling it will probably alleviate your problem:

Press + X
Select Power Options
Select Additional power settings on the right
Select Choose what the power buttons do on the upper-left
Select Change settings that are currently unavailable
Scroll to the bottom of the window and uncheck the box associated with Turn on fast startup
Click the button to Save changes
Reboot your system

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Run5k

Posted 2016-12-01T22:14:40.833

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Isn't it easier to just use Shutdown.exe -s -t 00? – Ramhound – 2016-12-01T23:07:02.703

@Ramhound , yes, absolutely... that is an excellent suggestion. But then again, it is also easier to hold Shift while you select Shutdown. Since the author emphasized *"My question is the following: is there any way to make the Shut down on the menu as the truly/hard shutdown by default?"*, I assume that he wants a set-it-and-forget-it solution that will accomplish his specific goal. – Run5k – 2016-12-01T23:15:29.147

Just restarted my computer with settings as described in this post, and I found everything worked out now. Thank you for answering this question in such a detailed fashion for a simple and easy-to-operate solution! – Xiaodong Qi – 2016-12-04T00:41:44.823

1Just use Shutdown.exe -s -t 00 to shutdown your computer. The current answer and only to this question, keep hibernated shutdown enabled, so I wouldn't recomend it. I will find the duplicate to this question after I have a better internet connection – Ramhound – 2016-12-01T23:08:01.530

Just use Shutdown.exe -s -t 00 to shutdown your computer. The current answer and only to this question, keep hibernated shutdown enabled, so I wouldn't recomend it. I will find the duplicate to this question after I have a better internet connection – Ramhound – 2016-12-01T23:08:07.957

You edited your question to emphasize that "This issue only occurs recently after my upgrade of the Windows OS," which makes sense. But did you try our suggestions to alleviate the problem? – Run5k – 2016-12-03T05:14:25.500

@Run5k, I have read your solution, but I haven't got a chance to restart my computer yet. I will definitely try in my next restart once my work is done. Thanks! – Xiaodong Qi – 2016-12-03T08:08:08.370