journal superblock

[deja69]

I have an issue and wishing i was more familiar with Bash.

I have Salix13.37LXDE86_64 installed and whilst using a DebianAVLInux LiveUSB i forgot to unmount ext3 after using installed files.
In addition.whilst 'experimenting' with the installed Salix earlier id made all the permission for folders and files in home to root:root.And thus any external file reader denotes my home folder as not existing (it is still there)

I now am unable to boot into Salix.
JBD:IO error reading journal superblock
Ext4-Fs(sda3):error loading journal

Ive tried to use SalixLive to remedy but
SalixLive13.1.2LXDE = Boots to GUI but initiates num lock and i am unable to use mouse or keyboard.
SalixLive13.37 XFCE = Stops halfway through boot and drops to a debugging shell.

I was able to boot Parted Magic to RAM and reinstall LILO,but this made little difference.

More investigation recommends that i change the ext3 ...to ext2 or ext4 in the hope it bypasses the corrupted superblock and reads the helper script.
This i will do methodically but i wanted to make sure there is not any 'Salix specific' info i need to be aware of.
Thanks

[deja69]

Solved it ...with a little help of Mr Knoppix's superior hardware recognition and Gparted fix.

I still think it is an hardware issue..the last time this happened was with a DebianTailsUSB and it destroyed my Sabayon installation.
Still..the positives of that..was i came to Salix

Though using SalixLive with Salix installed still is problematic with whatever is the issue with my box.
Non-reading of DMA seems to be long standing issue with my laptop booting,plus my reallocation tables have 14 unhappy marks ..so i guess i should study it more ..along with everything else...you know ? computers are really damn hard ..you geek people are nuts!.....very smart

Thanks