Docker: Error response from daemon: error creating overlay mount to /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ (Path here) /merged : too many levels of symbolic links

Question

I am trying to run minikube with the following command:

minikube start --driver=docker

but it keeps giving me this error:

docker: Error response from daemon: error creating overlay mount to 
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/a0d24fcc3839411f64db067596135b1402fc1f98252ce3a09cb79b0ff2cabe41- 
init/merged: too many levels of symbolic links.
See 'docker run --help'.

• I have tried reinstalling the minikube both using chocolatey and .exe file.
• Tried stopping and deleting minikube cluster from docker.
• Tried reinstalling docker and all of it's services are running properly.
• Environment variables have also been set properly for kubectl and minikube.

is there something I'm missing out on..?

The Error

here's the image displaying the running containers using the docker run command