Help needed on rig

[Deleted member 61728]

Hi i have problem here are my specs:
Q6600 @3.0ghz
4 gigs ram
1 X 150 raptor 10000rpm [problem drive]
2X 500 gb seagate HD

I have a dual boot system with xp/vista xp on the raptor and vista is on a partion on one of the seagates.

The problem is i can boot into xp and safemode but after a short while the raptor makes a funny noise and blue screens with a crital process was terminated error even though i havnt dont anything.Ive tried doing a av scan and error checking of the drive + defragging +tried doing same in safemode but this all fails also.

Ive tried booting into vista but this fails aswell it says winload file is missing on the raptor.So i tried using the win cd recovery console to no luck.

Some cricital files are on that hardrive and i cant backup them up is there anything i can do to get them back ?

Is this a borked HD or something else ?

How would i fix this problem without getting a replacement raptor and what stepsdo i need to follow to get at least one of os system working today with minimal effort?


Thanks in advance

 

[Vir]

You might wanna check the HD for bad sectors or something. Or go into the event log and see what causes the crash.

 

[errata]

I would double check the hardware for a start, connectors, cable and the sata port its attached to.

what order did yo uinstall things in vista first or last? Vista would have been advisable

 

[Deleted member 61728]

I took your advice and checked all the sata connectors and they look ok.

It wont boot into xp or xp safemode now it just hangs so i cant check the event log.

Regarding the order i installed things:
I first installed xp onto the raptor 150gb then i installed vista on a partion that i made with partion magic on one of the seagates.

How would i go about doing this if the raptor drive is indeed toast ?
Install xp onto a new partion on a another HD and make it boot into a os selection menu like it did before

thanks again