Problem at boot A Disk Error Occured Press Ctrl Alt Del I have a Intel P4 2.8ghz (Asus p4b533-e) 512mb ddr Kingston 64mb Geforce 3 Raided Hard Drives in Stripe Both Maxtors (140g) The problem is that i gettin this error and i cant boot into windows to matter what i do. I tried the recovery console FIXBOOT and FIX MBR dont work. Chkdsk /r say i may have one or more errors, but doesnt scan. The Hard Drives are on a Fastrak MB133 Raid Striped. I dont want to loss any information because it is valuable to my work. I think the hard drives are fine because the stipe is still functional according to the raid utility. I read it might be possible to make a boot disk to get around the boot error. I have my boot.ini lookin like this [boot loader] timeout=30 Default= scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows [operating systems] scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Windows XP" Not sure if that right. I have the driver labeled ntbootdd.sys on the disk as well with ntldr and ntdctect.exe. But no luck comp is saying it a unvalid system disk. I was wondering if im doing anytihng wrong with the disk or are there any other options ro get the stored information. Id rather not mail the harddrives to a company, as i need the information soon. One thing i did notice is that windows hangs a little when trying to examine the hard drives in the console, might be cause thier size. Everything was workin till this morning when i found this error on my screen.

Maybe helpful info: The Purpose of the Boot.ini File in Windows XP HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP Print the articles to use as reference.

Those websites do help but i still dont really know how to setup the boot.ini i got the basic setup down but i dont know if i need it to say scsi(0,1,or 2). Im new to the raid setup. Normally its zero. That didnt work. Ones didnt work. But the question is how do i figure out the values for (x)s in the boot.ini. Also if anyone has anyother ideas for recovering the data it would be apperciated.

According to the links u gave me my boot.ini should work, any idea why im gettin invalid system disk? I do have a striped raid i dont know if that changes anything

I have the same problem. My disk won't boot, but I can access the data if I boot up on something else. I've tried to wipe the disk, create a new partition, format the partition and install Win XP. But all without luck. What's interesting is that I bought a new hardrive on which I copied over the image of the defected one. So now I have two disk's with the same problem. Any suggestions?