Good evening,

So i'm having trouble recovering a windows drive. I turned my computer on last night and in the middle of booting into windows, the computer started turning off and on about once a second. I tested a few things, and this turning off and on would happen immediately after turning on the box, before even trying to boot into windows. I switched out the power supply, had a cmos checksum error, so i reset the bios to defaults, and finally was able to boot up a knoppix live cd. windows does not boot though, it loaded a white flashing screen with some random blocks of color flashing.

some quick stats on my computer which i think are relevant, if i'm forgetting let me know:
windows xp pro service pack 2
2x 100 gb hard drives in raid 0 formation

--when i checked the drives in qtparted, i see hde and hdg, hdg shows as empty, and hde returns an error message "critical error during ped_disk_new!"

--this is what i see in the terminal when i run fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hde: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 24322 195366433+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdg: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 193821 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Disk /dev/hdg doesn't contain a valid partition table


Ideally, it might be nice to recover and boot back into windows, but i'm ok simply recovering the data on the corrupted drives and copying it to an external hard drive. If there is something else I can provide, I'd be more than happy to. I tried searching some other sites and posts, but nothing seemed to address the fact that I can't even see the disks i'm trying to recover. Thanks in advance!