Fix : Linux NTFS Error Mounting $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0)

With an external USB hard drive that is used to share files between Windows and Linux computers you may get an Error on Linux similar to the following :

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdd1′: Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it’s a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory

To resolve the issue is to use ntfsprogs which can be installed from most Linux distributions e.g.

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S ntfsprogs

Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Debian

$ sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

To fix the issue run the following command syntax

$ sudo ntfsfix <drive mount point>

Change the drive to be the same shown in the Error. For example in the above error the command is

$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdd1