Total Lock-Up of IBM Think-Centre A50 PC

Hello
I copied from the live cd (5.1.1) to my partitioned hard drive using

knoppix tohd=/dev/hda5

and have booted from it using

knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hd5

and was impressed at the increase in speed.

However whilst playing “reversi� the entire system seized up and would not respond to keystrokes; so the only option was to switch the power off. In such an event, is there a way of instructing it to repair the damage left by the field not being unmounted correctly?

Would writing a swap file to the disk partition help, if so how would one do this?

Have studied the codes and not found anything as yet.

Am a beginner, migrating from Windows.

Regards,

John