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If this is happening when you are booting, then it is likely that the boot files/partition is broken.

If you can boot from a live CD/USB, then you should look into doing that, mount your partition(s) and see if you can repair anything that is broken.

If you haven't done anything like this before, it isn't the easiest thing but maybe you can find tutorials out there.

I have had to do this a few times for Arch Linux, but the process will likely be very different for another Linux distribution.

If you can't do all that, then work on getting the files you care about off the drive while being booted into the live CD/USB.
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Marc Kat 9mo ago

Thanks. I booted up TAILS and it says error starting GDM with your graphics card. 👀

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Marc Kat 9mo ago

I looked it up. Looks like that's a tails thing.

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Big Barry Bitcoin 9mo ago

I wouldn't use tails. Tails is designed to be isolated from the rest of your computer. I imagine it would be hard to do anything useful with it (not impossible, but just more difficult than usual).

I would recommend starting with a PopOS liveUSB.

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Big Barry Bitcoin 9mo ago

Maybe you can use Tails to find, download and install PopOS onto another USB stick.