[Mat99]

Hi folks,

I have a problem that I've been trying to fix for 2 days now, but no luck.

Here's the info:
I have a system with 4 drives, 2 in raid1 and 2 in raid0. I have OS installed on raid1. Two days ago, after restarting the PC, chkdsk started during boot (just before getting to the desktop). Nothing wrong here, this has happened once or twice before. It ran for a while and did find and fix some errors. Then it restarted the pc and during start up procedures I notice a "verify" status displayed next to my raid1 arrays (called Primary). I knew what would happened next and it did. The xp wouldn't load and I get the bsod. This has happened before and I imagine it happens because raid array needs to be verified, but this can't be done through dos. So I turned everything off and added the fifth IDE disk to the system on which I had a clean xp instalation that I did a year ago, when the first crash like this happened. So I got into XP (on this 5th drive) with no problems and Intel Matrix Storage console saw the array problem straight away and started the "verify" process. All good, same as usually. It ran for a while, found no problems and I did that I usually do next, turned down the pc, unplugged the ide drive and started the pc again. Usually it's all good, I get into xp on my raid array with no problems and all is fixed. But not this time! I gets through startup procedure, I see the splash screen, then it crashes and gives me bsod. This is the first time it has happened so I'm not sure what's up.
The code says: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I added the 5th drive again, ran antivirus on all drives, nothing was found.
I tried booting with XP CD, but after all the "setups; just before the options page" it crashes again and gives the same bsod.
I tried booting in safe mode, same thing.
I tried booting with last know good configuration, same thing.
Through XP on the 5th drive, I ran chkdsk on all other drives, nothing was found.

If this was a new pc and I was instaling stuff, I would imagine something went wrong. But I had this setup for 2 years now, it all worked great. So I guess the setting in bios are all correct, if it worked till now, right? Same for the connections and stuff, right? It all worked great until that chkdsk 2 days ago, which found and "fixed" some problem on my Primary raid1 drive.

Could it be something with the boot sector or mbr?
But everywhere I look it says "start the recovery consol and rewrite the boot sector".. I can't, I get bsod before I get to the options page to select the Recovery Consol.

With my 5th drive I have access to all my 4 drives in 2 raid arrays. Can somehting be done through this 5th drive, can I fix the boot sector and/or mbr on my raid1 array through this 5th drive?

Please help, I'm totally lost..

TIA,
Mat

UPDATE#1: I've managed to get into the Recovery console (I had to use the Raid driver diskette during xp boot from CD), and did the "fixboot" command. It wrote the new boot, I restarted the pc, but same thing, I see the splash screen, then it goes black and just as I was suppose to see the desktop, it restarts.