Account not being accessed

[chi-kitory]

Hey,
i was playing Urban Terror, and my computer locked up on me. i waited 10 minutes, brushed my teeth, played a round of golf (on the xbox). Came back and it was still locked up.
So i hard reset my PC.
When i turned it back on, it booted up normal, but this time there was a menu that i haven't seen come up in a while.
Asking me to log in to oem or Chi kitory. i click Chi kitory, and type my password it seems to work but then takes me to the password input screen again. i try a different password, it tells me its wrong. So i type the password that i know is right in, and it does the same loop, loads and goes back to the log in screen (with oem and chi kitory account).

So i log in to the oem account with the same password as the chi kitory account. And it works fine. im writting this from it.
So my guess is when i hardreset my Pc, it messed up my account?
The chi kitory side has about 120Gigs worth of stuff, plus everything from work. So i rather not be told to reinstall Mint. Is there a way to recover my account? or am i doing something wrong where its not letting my log in?
Thanks,
Chi kitory

[chi-kitory]

bump//

[DrHu]

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=33561
OK, how about some context, usr information..

• And you are running Urban terror on which Linux mint, which desktop etc etc..

Linux mint OEM account..
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 3&p=224755

If you have the space, possibly the easiest GUI way is ..

• Create a new user
• Copy all your chi?? data over
• Make use of it

--or work the permissions (GUI access, right-click/..permissions) for that user, so that anyone can access it, then you should be able to get the data..

[chi-kitory]

if it helps, i can only get into it with failsafe gnome. Not sure why that is. And im running Mint-8