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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by yebyen on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:29AM (#9784588)
Same thing can happen with newer versions of Windows if you mount your C:\ NTFS drive from within Linux, then go boot into Windows. The warning basically says in so many words, the drive has not been cleanly unmounted and it needs to be checked. I've seen it, but I don't have the exact text handy.

In a geologic time scale at least, I believe that was actually a "new feature" some time after Windows Vista and maybe even after 7.

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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by hackmiester on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:16PM (#9786225)
Linux actually does this on purpose, and has for some time. The NTFS driver was kind of scary for a long time (not sure if it still is) - read/write support was beta quality at best. So, the developers of the driver made Linux mark every NTFS volume as dirty, once it was mounted read/write. Then, when you booted into Windows, it would see it as a dirty volume, and do a file system consistency check on it - which is what the Linux driver was aiming for.
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