Stalled boot

Hi
Ive had a read through the various approaches to dealing with booting and im still stuck with a stalled screen; the grey apple with the loading icon. I tried safe mode and single user mode to no avail. I havent added anything to my computer lately. I did do a big print run and 50 big ish files i left to print. When i came back i had a blue screen, shut down and now i cant reboot. The print run was completed so im not sure what the issue could be. I only had a mule running as well and i have that on often when working. Anyone ever found a solution to this?
David

Hi toloupe!
Do you mean that you have run Repair Disk, and the results state that the disk still needs repairs?
If so, you will have to use a more robust repair utility, such as DiskWarrior.
Do you have your system, or at least your critical data backed up?
EDIT: Hi Gulliver! You beat me to it, but I'll leave my reply too, as it has a link to DiskWarrior
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