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I ran out of space on my Ubuntu 16.04 partition so I used easeUS partition master on Windows 10 to shrink my Windows partition, move the unallocated space over, then expand the Ubuntu partition. Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu, I only get the grub terminal.

I was able to locate the grub.cfg file but after trying to set it as the config file, I got a very quick error message containing a bunch of seemingly random numbers and letters.

error: no such device: 7debd206-c...

I was also unable to find the vmlinuz file.

When using the "set" command I get back:

?=0
cmdpath=(hdq,gpt2)/EFI/ubuntu
...
lang =
locale_dir=
net_default_ip=(null)
net_default_mac=(null)
net_default_server=
pager=
pxe_default_server=
root=hd1,gpt2
secondary_locale_dir=

Where the "..." are settings what I assume to be unnecessary for this question.

Booting ubuntu off a flashdrive I am able to list the partitions on my computer and the one that should be the Ubuntu partition says Microsoft basic data. I dont think this is important but I thought it would be better to include it anyway.

If anyone can help me boot up Ubuntu without having to format the partition that would be great! Thank you!

mike
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EaseUS only supports EXT2 and EXT3 partitions.

So if you used EXT4 (the default in 16.04) it indeed converted it to a Windows Basic Partition.

The only thing left to you to do is (in increasing order of difficultly)

Fabby
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