I have two drives, an ssd with windows and ubuntu installed in dual boot, and an hdd with some personal files.
I used to be able to access my hdd from both OSs just fine, but now all of a sudden i can’t mount my it on ubuntu.
I can open the hdd just fine while on windows but on ubuntu i get the following error:
Unable fo access location: Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/MyName/MyDrive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Real helpful error message i gotta say, “It could be either of these 5 things, or something else, idk”, lol.
Anyway, what can i do about this? I’d like to be able to access my hdd from ubuntu again.
Do you have hibernation and fast boot disabled?
Yes, that’s the first thing i tried.
Edit: I guess i didn’t, since shift+shutdown worked. Or at least i did, but windows said: “I’m going to ignore that”
This was my problem, it’s enabled by default, so double check that
For those wondering, the problem was that windows didn’t fully unmount the drive. To fix this you need to fully shutdown windows with the command line or the shift key.
Try Shift + Shutdown in Windows, then boot in Linux, see if the problem is solved.
That worked! Thanks.
But like, i’m pretty sure i turned off fast boot, not sure why windows was still doing this hybrid shutdown bs.
Because Windows. Maybe try using winbtrfs? Its alpha quality but it seems to work for some people. (You will need to format the drive as btrfs)
You could actually install Windows on btrfs with that driver 🤨? Never tried it… but would be willing to try, since I’m sick and tired of Windows store corruption 😒.
I have a feeling it would be very unstable and prone to corruption. However you could try it in a VM just for funzies
Yep, first a test run 👍.
Maybe and updated turned it back on 🤷.
Look into this, I use it on all Windows installs.
Just to make it clear for anyone coming in now, the problem was solved! Thanks everyone for all the help.
It was really simple in the end, all i did was shift+shutdown on windows and it worked.
Obviously use at your own risk but maybe ntfsfix can help:
Will try, thanks.
did anything work for you?
Yes, shift+shutdown worked.
Doesn’t this say to “reply to a first offender off-line” or did you not even read it.
Try specifying filesystem as ntfs3 in fstab
