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.

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    1 year ago

    Try Shift + Shutdown in Windows, then boot in Linux, see if the problem is solved.

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      1 year ago

      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.