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One year ago I bought my new laptop and decided to create a dual boot system. Since I knew that I was going to dual boot the system, I decided to buy a second SSD for my laptop as it has a second slot for the SSD and the first slot has an SSD with Windows 11 installed on it. The second SSD has Ubuntu 22.04 installed on it.

Everything worked out fine until today my laptop showed me GNU GRUB line when I decided to boot up into Ubuntu SSD. After that, I decided to check whether the Ubuntu SSD is showing up on my Windows file manager or not since I assigned 150GB to Ubuntu and 350GB to Windows, but this time it doesn't show up in the file manager. Then I decided to go into Disk Management. The SSD shows up as not initialized or offline every time I start the laptop, and even after changing that status the SSD still keeps showing up in Disk Management as 1MB SSD.

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As you can see Disk 0 is the one with Ubuntu and it used to have 350GB allocated to Windows. I want to restore access to that SSD.

karel
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Mithilesh Chaudhary
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  • Windows does not recognize the `ext4` partition format used by Ubuntu by default. If you try to "fix" the Ubuntu partition from within Windows, you will mess it up. I am not sure that's what has happened. If you can boot both Windows and Ubuntu, it is probably fine. Don't try to solve an Ubuntu problem from within Windows. Windows problems are off topic here. – user68186 Aug 12 '23 at 13:42
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    Does this answer your question? [How to read ext4 partitions in Windows?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/9933/how-to-read-ext4-partitions-in-windows) – karel Aug 13 '23 at 01:25

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