>First, run a diagnostic on your hard drives. Seagate makes a good tool that works on other drives. This happened to my neighbor and we had to use the actual manufacturer's tool though.
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>If it is determined that hard drive(s) has not failed:

Tracy, based on the fact that Jim's got RAID, a HW failure should in theory only be possible if something smoked both his drives (yupp, I have heard of power surges, but something is still running...). So gathering some info should be possible from one of the drives, unless the software nulled areas on both disks.
>While booting press F8 and choose Enable VGA Mode on the Windows Startup menu.
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>If that fails, restart the computer and check your bios settings. Make sure the cdrom is the first boot device and then boot to the windows cd.
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>Read this:
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>http://support.microsoft.com/KB/314503

Yupp, but the problem MAY be tied to C: BEING RAIDED. This is an area for backup or alternate strategy (multiple boot), NOT HW redundancy.
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>This happened to me and I had to replace my hard drive. Hopefully that is not your situation. It was an immediate unexpected surprise. Everything was absolutely fine and then bam. When you run the diagnostic test on the hard drive listen for any highpitched whining or spinning.

Happened once to my laptop drive. Data recovery is/was often possible, though at horrendous price.

regards

thomas