I guess my system is really messed up My last couple of freezes would not allow me to open a console - no response to Ctrl-Alt-F3 or Ctrl-Alt-backspace, or even Ctrl-Alt-Del. Had to touch the power button-shut down immediately, no 5 second hold required. Rebooting brought me to a command line login. I can log in as a user or as root, but no GUI. How do I restore my profile?

I tried booting from 3.6 CD, with myconfig=scan. I got an unending scrolling list of errors, citing block numbers, (every fourth one). I finally booted from 3.4CD with no cheat codes and got a working GUI system. Is there a way to reconnect to my configuration that is on my HD?

BTW, The crash seems to have disabled both my CD drivers in my WIN98se partition. Fortunately, they still work with K3b in Knoppix 3.4. I was almost ready to give up on Windows and switch to Linux, but this is a serious setback.