How to access locked Windows drive from Ubuntu

You are seeing this error because you hibernated Windows or you improperly shut it down instead of turning it off the normal way.

Hibernating saves the current state information to the hard disk and then powers down the computer.

Shutting down the computer closes all programs and ends all running processes before powering down the computer.

When you turn off Windows by hibernating it, you are essentially pausing the system and saving all of that information into a big file called hiberfil.sys. This way w