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I think it could be noted for some people that ntfsfix gets installed into /bin/ instead of /usr/bin. So

sudo ln -nsf /bin/ntfsfix /sbin/fsck.ntfs

sudo ln -nsf /bin/ntfsfix /sbin/fsck.ntfs-3g

If you have already created the symlink from /usr/bin/

sudo rm -f /sbin/fsck.ntfs

sudo rm -f /sbin/fsck.ntfs-3g

And then create the symlinks again.

If you have an NTFS partition automatically mounted at startup, the only reason could be you have manually or through some tool added it to /etc/fstab (not taking into account WUBI).

If the system tries to check the partition at startup it means that in the corresponding line in /etc/fstab there is a sixth field and its value is 1 or 2.

ntfsfix is not linked by default to fsck.ntfs, and it only provides limited check capabilities, as explained in the man page:

ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is
NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS
inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS
consistency check for the first boot into Windows.

The common solution is not to create the symlink, but to remove or set to 0 the sixth field in /etc/fstab.

Micro's answer worked for me, however my 11.10 (upgraded from 11.04) did not have ntfsprogs. 'sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs' solved that, then the link suggestion worked fine.

The problem is a missing symbolic link, to either /usr/bin/ntfsfix or /bin/ntfsfix. You can make the needed link(s) with:

sudo ln -s $(which ntfsfix) /sbin/fsck.ntfs

sudo ln -s $(which ntfsfix) /sbin/fsck.ntfs-3

I have the same problem after I accidentally installed ntfsprogs. I think there is bug in dependencies because after installation of ntfsprogs all NTFS drives started mounting read-only.

When I turned back ntfs-3g, fsck.ntfs disappeared.

SO:

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  ntfs-3g

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  ntfsprogs

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

BUT:

apt-cache showpkg ntfs-3g

Package: ntfs-3g

Versions: 

1:2011.4.12AR.4-2ubuntu3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)

...

Provides: 

1:2011.4.12AR.4-2ubuntu3 - ntfsprogs 

I'm not sure what should be the right behavior there but be aware of it.

On ubuntu 14.04 package is not available as of Jan 2015

1. sudo ln -s /bin/ntfsfix /sbin/fsck.ntfs


2. sudo ln -s /bin/ntfsfix /sbin/fsck.ntfs-3g


3. 
   

   sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

   
   
   

   Package ntfsprogs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
   
   This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
   
   is only available from another source
   
   E: Package 'ntfsprogs' has no installation candidate
   
   

   
   

Try to force remapping of damaged sectors using this script:
https://techoverflow.net/blog/2015/01/07/fixing-bad-blocks-on-hdds-using-fixhdd.py/

mirror: https://github.com/unxed/fixhdd

This script looks into system log for i/o errors every 5 seconds and writes zeroes to faulty sectors to force hdd controller to remap them.
Usage sample:
sudo fixhdd.py --loop /dev/sda

$ man fsck

fsck - check and repair a Linux filesystem

To repair a broken NTFS system on GNU / Linux you could use ntfsfix which is part of ntfs-3g as following:

$ ntfsfix /dev/sdc1