Hey guys,

Reaaaallly hope you can help me on this one, I've been banging my head against a wall for 3 days trying to get this laptop to boot into XP again (need to edit boot.ini)

I have a SONY VGN-AR18GP laptop here, and when i boot from the Knoppix CD, there is no hard-drive on the desktop.
From the looks of below there is a raid0 set up... not exactly sure how to access the hdd ><

fdisk -l
Code:
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# fdisk -l
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0x717a of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa456c7aa

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         730     5863693+  12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2   *         731        4378    29302560    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            4379       19457   121122067+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5   ?       42807      182551  1122489544+  2a  Unknown

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0fd93b00

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o force
Code:
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o force
Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x47370c0)
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for the details.
dmraid -b
dmraid -r
Code:
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# dmraid -b
/dev/sdb:    156301488 total, "56DN4555S"
/dev/sda:    156301488 total, "56DN4557S"

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# dmraid -r
/dev/sdb: isw, "isw_bgfgbgiiae", GROUP, ok, 156301486 sectors, data@ 0
/dev/sda: isw, "isw_bgfgbgiiae", GROUP, ok, 156301486 sectors, data@ 0
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