Recover Ubuntu installation after Ext2Fsd installation

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I have a dual boot setup on my machine. Windows 10 64-Bit and Ubuntu 16.10 64-Bit. This worked until I installed Ext2Fsd in Windows. I can now access my Linux partition from Windows as drive letter but I cannot boot Linux any more.

The error message is Superblock could not be read, use e2fsck -b 8193 device.

Any advice on what to do? Running the command from the broken Linux command line did not work.

You forgot to tell us what the output of e2fsck -b 8193 was. — LiveWireBT, Nov 12 '16 at 02:27
I guess nobody else is going to write a satisfactory answer which provides more insight soon. Could you please post an answer and mark it as accepted or remove the question? Note that Unix SE has a similar question. — LiveWireBT, Nov 13 '16 at 15:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 13 '16 at 16:00

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I fixed the issue using e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda5 and pressing a to automatically correct all errors. Now Ubuntu 16.10 is booting again.

answered Nov 13 '16 at 16:00

Michael S.

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Do you still use ext2fsd? Does it still corrupt the superblock? – Kurt Fitzner Jul 06 '19 at 15:03
I stopped using it. – Michael S. Jul 07 '19 at 16:26

Recover Ubuntu installation after Ext2Fsd installation

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