How to fix ubuntu terminal not working on windows?

For more than a year I have been running ubuntu 20.04 and more recently 22.04 on my windows machine.

Recently I was having some difficulties with my Ruby version that was installed on the ubuntu system and I needed to source the bashrc file every time I opened the ubuntu terminal.

For the past 3-4 days I am unable to use ubuntu 22.04 nor 20.04, even if I install it from scratch. The terminal is inactive and not responding. Found some issues that sounded the same but I was not able to access the files from within windows and check them to try and modify something.

I need to access this terminal as there is a lot of data that is useful to me.

Any advice is welcomed.

Thanks!