Hard Drive Failure in RAID 0?

[Mapex]

So went to start my current gaming rig a Gigabyte GA-8IHXP, p4 2.4, 1 gb rdram, ati 9700 aiw, with 2 160gb Maxtor HD's in a raid 0 array. I get the bsod with unmountable_boot_volume error. I've checked the memory (memtest86), video card working fine in other computer, and the mobo appears fine. I cannot boot into safe mode. I tried booting from the windows xp cd to go into the recovery console and chkdisk it and it identified errors but was unable to fix? Any other ideas or did my hard drive just bite the big one?

[UltimaParadox]

Ouch do you have another drive you could try to use as a boot drive?

However once one of the hard drives go south in a RAID-0 you are pretty much out of luck, since once one goes everything goes with it. The nature of the dynamic array keep you from being able to use it standalone.

[jacuzz1]

* Boot from your XP Setup CD and enter the Recovery Console
* Run "Attrib -H -R -S" on the C:\Boot.ini file
* Delete the C:\Boot.ini file
* Run "Bootcfg /Rebuild"
* Run Fixboot

Based on the front page article?

[Mapex]

no dice on attrib
bootcfg couldn't run because of a corrupt file system error
chkdsk says "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"
fixboot says the bootsector is corrupt and thinks my ntfs partition is using the FAT file system. hehehe Looks like i'm tossing a second hard drive in to try and boot from that.

[UltimaParadox]

no dice on attrib
bootcfg couldn't run because of a corrupt file system error
chkdsk says "the volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems"
fixboot says the bootsector is corrupt and thinks my ntfs partition is using the FAT file system. hehehe Looks like i'm tossing a second hard drive in to try and boot from that.

Yeah lets hope you can pull them up as data drive and just the windows stuff is hosed

[spine]

check power cables etc to your hard drives.

I've had a loose power cable cause false alarms many times in the past. Just don't try and do anything to your drives in the mean time; though I fear you may already have...

[Mapex]

well I tossed in another spare hard drive and set it up as the boot drive, installed xp and booted it up, loaded the correct raid drivers and checked all the cables, didn't recognize the drive. It recognized that a raid array exists but won't recognize that there should be a drive there attached to it. I'm guessing it's pretty dead