Windows XP recovery/ Hard drives not found

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Hope this is the right forum for this but here is my problem and question.
Recently I have run Windows XP's defragging program to clean up my hard
drive. After it was complete and I rebooted windows was coming up with .dll
errors and could not find the latest registry. So then I ran windows system
restore point program to see if that would help, big mistake! After I
rebooted windows could not fully upload past the loading screen and in safe
mode it stops at line
"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers\agp440.sys"

The next thing I tried was to set the BIOS to load from CD and put in
my Windows XP cd and try to do a recovery but it came back with the following
response, "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your
computer." The hard drives are really 2 Western Digital 32G Raptor drives
connected as a raid setup. I have run diagnostic programs from Western
Digital and the programs can find no problems with the hard drives them
selves. The array setup of the hard drive is stated as "normal" and I can
not see anything that would cause a problem on how they are setup.

So my question is, does anyone have any idea what would be going on
with this problem whether it might be the hard drives them selves, Windows
XP, or the Raid setup? Thank you for your time!
 
XP wont find any SATA drives,specially with a RAID configuration unless
you use the F6 option and install the SATA/RAID controller drivers....As for
youre problem,on start up tap the F8 key,select safe mode,enter as administr-
ator,or safe mode with cmd prompt,once in xp,install xp cd,exit the info
page,open cmd,type:Sfc /Scannow When its thru,type:CHKDSK C: /F Agree
to restart,type:EXIT Restart computer..
 
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