Hello everyone,

I have been using Ubuntu in a VM (VMWare Player 14) for a long time now. The host for this system is Win10. I tried to start PyCharm in the Ubuntu guest and it crashed with multiple Java errors. I rebooted to fix this error. However, from that on it does not boot, but opens a shell. Text:

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! UUID=06c1882f-5487-4294-bada-8767adf6d10e does not exists. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfd)_

I have a nearly identical virtual machine that works. The only thing I am really concerned about is the files on it from a project for my computer science class. So either way to get to the files is all I really need. So either by getting the system to work again or by somehow extracting the files from the VMWare vmdk files.

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks a lot!