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I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on my Windows 7 PC using wubi. The system does not boot and I'm trying to mount root.disk file in order to restart it from a Ubuntu live USB. But terminal shows me:

mount: Stale file handle

I have no idea what it means, nor how can I solve it. Any idea?

The commands that I used were:

sudo mkdir /media/win7ub
sudo mkdir /media/ubuntu1404
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda3 /media/win7ub
sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop /media/win7ub/ubuntu/disks.root.disk /media/ubuntu1404

I run WIndows 7 professional and my PC does not support UEFI. I installed WUBI 12.10

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    Wubi is no longer developed or supported: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14245/is-wubi-off-topic
    – user692175
    Sep 18, 2017 at 22:23
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    Steve Mena Navarro: Please edit with details: What version of Windows are you running, and how was it installed? Wubi doesn't work with Windows's UEFI boot loader. If you're running Windows 8 or later, Wubi is only likely to work if you upgraded from a previous version of Windows; it won't work if Windows 8 or later was preinstalled by the manufacturer (such systems use UEFI). @MichaelBay 14.04 has Wubi; we support 14.04 until it is EoL. I've closed that meta question as a duplicate of a much higher voted one by the same OP. That question and those linked to it may interest you.
    – Eliah Kagan
    Sep 20, 2017 at 16:22
  • I've added the details that you recommend me.
    – Steve Mena Navarro
    Sep 21, 2017 at 18:47
  • Which mount command resulted in the error message in the question? The issue sounds a bit weird because there should be no way for file handles to turn stale when only local file systems are involved.
    – David Foerster
    Sep 21, 2017 at 21:11
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    Related: askubuntu.com/questions/21264/… and stackoverflow.com/questions/20105260/…
    – Elder Geek
    Sep 22, 2017 at 2:20

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