Read-only file system error for mounted media

On my workstation I've Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 18.04 on an SSD and one HD for other process. Now I need to create the virtual environment for python3 on a folder inside the HDD but when I try to do this via terminal I see this:

Error: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/media/user/DOC_HD1/DEV_FOLDER/devenv'

How I can solve this? I'm not an expert of Linux systems and I'm trying to pass from Windows.

NB: DOC_HD1 contain 1TB of fundamentals documents and I hope that the solution don't delete anything


The volume is mounted read only, as it appears. It is not possible to know the details from a distance, but likely, your HD is formatted in the ntfs file system, the file system of MS Windows. That file system may be inconsistent at this time. In such case, Ubuntu won't mount it, or perhaps may mount it read-only.

Close down Ubuntu, start up Windows. Using the disk utilities of Windows, check and repair the file system on the disk concerned.

Then shut down Windows fully, i.e., no hibernate. This is to make sure that Windows fully closes the disk. If after this, the file system is consistent, Ubuntu will mount the drive with read and write permissions.