So this afternoon after work, I wanted to try and troubleshoot something that would require using my Ubuntu WSL Instance. However when I came to start said Ubuntu 22.04 Instance, I was greeted with the following message:
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-1024x569.png)
This was a tad annoying I admit, But it sparked blogging mojo, So here is the post.
Checking the file path, we can confirm we have no ext4.vhd
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-1-1024x186.png)
So how do we fix this? Well firstly we need to check what instance we have under wsl to find this run
wsl.exe -l
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-2-1024x84.png)
Next, we need to unregister the broken instance of Ubuntu 22.04
wsl.exe --unregister Ubuntu-22.04
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-3-1024x91.png)
After removing the failed instance, we can now reinstall
wsl.exe --install Ubuntu-22.04
![](https://hypervlab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image-4-1024x569.png)
and that people is the shortest blog post I’ve written in a while, BUt it fixed my issue and got me blogging again 🥳
For more information on WSL, Check out the Microsoft Learn page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/