Help Please!!!! TIA

Himmler

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So I go to start up my computer, and the computer beeps claiming te video card has came unplugged. So I thought no problem Ill just plug it back in. Well I go and plug it in, boot up the computer and it loads up fine to the windows login screen.
Now when I was putting back on the case door my fan hit a wire and when I tried to fix it i accidently unplugged the wire and it hit the wire it was plugged into and the computer just shut off and I am guessing this was caused by a short.
So now Windows will NOT recognize any of my hard drives. I get to the Windows XP loading screen with the blue bar and it just sits there or reboots.
When I went into safe mode I get a blue screen that say

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

So I put in my recovery CD, go to the recovery console, and it will not read any of the hard drives I have. Now here is the funny thing, the BIOS and everything recognized that both hard drives are plugged in or else I wouldn't even get to that point in the Windows loading screen.

Does anyone have any recommendations other than re-installing Windows?
If noone thinks that I can do anything but re-install Windows, any tips on how I can actually re-install it when Windows won't even recongnize any of my hard drives?

The hard drives I have are 2xRaptor 76GB 10,000 RPM in RAID 0 and 1 160GB Barracuda. I had to get help installing raid on my ASUS SK8V motherboard so I'd rather not have to re-install Windows since I will probably not be able to get RAID going without help, and I do not want to format my drives under any circumstances.

What should I do? HELP!!!!
 
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anyone?? This is literally killing me and I don't know what to do.. :(
 
Three things

Do you know if your motherboard needs SCSI drivers or anything like that? During windows install for some boards you have to give it special drivers for the motherboard so windows can get at your hard drives.

When this has happened to me before, I've found the best way to get windows to work on a drive again is to low-level format the drive. Go to the website for your drive and get the dos formatting utility. This is definately a LAST RESORT, as you'd have a real hard time getting any data back off the drive after you did this.

Don't poke around inside the case when it's plugged in. Make sure there's no power getting to anything inside it before you do anything.

Good luck
 
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