Laptop crashed

I was backing up some Blu Ray discs. I restarted the computer and now it won't boot the main desktop. It shows the following:

BusyBox v1.36.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.36.1-ubuntu3.1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

(initramfs)

If you type

exit

at that prompt, does it relay the error message?

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it shows this what I type "exit" then hit "enter"

you can try to run this command:

fsck  /dev/sda2
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Yes, it shows that your file system contains errors and says to check with the forced flag, running fsck (File System Check) manually.

Nourpon's suggestions is the right move:

To do this, I recommend ensuring the drive is UNMOUNTED during the process. You never want to run fsck on a mounted drive.

If you can access the Grub Menu, then select Advanced Options for Zorin - there is an fsck option in the Advanced Options Menu you can use that runs prior to mounting the drive.

Or, you can use a LiveUSB to boot from, then run fsck on the unmounted drive.

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Arggg ! I always forget this grub option, thank you :wink:

I restarted it from here and it booted normaly. Thank you all. This linux journey is interesting.

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