Machine will not Start

Do I need a new computer and is all my data lost? I have HP Pavilion D4100Y running XP-pro with the latest service packs. It also has a dual RAID 0 hard drive setup. A week ago when I went to boot it up Windows would not start. The machine would go through its boot screen, windows would begin to start and then it would go back to its boot screen. It just keep looking if I let it. the machine would not start in Safe Mode or any of its variations. I did some repeated memory test using Memtest version 4 and was getting some intermittent errors so I bought new memory. That was not the problem but I am not getting any intermittent errors any more. When I try to go into recovery mode (hitting F10) during boot up I get a blue screen lock up that gives a Stop 0x00000024 error and says NTFS.SYS address F6F1B857. I have not checked to see if the address keeps changing. The error also says “Disable or uninstall any antivirus, disk defrag or backup utilities. Check your drive configuration and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption and restart.” This is all good advice if you can get your machine to run but when it won’t start this is all useless.
Needless to say I have a few questions. Where should I be looking and how can I fix the problem? Assuming it is some kind of corruption or failure of the hard drive(s) how can I get the data off the hard drives? I thought about just trying to let windows do a reformat and re-install but I am concerned about losing all the data on the drives. I took one of the drives out thinking I could make it a slave and plug it into another machine but the cabling on these drives is different than what I have see in the past. I know AI can not be the only one who has ever had this problem. HELP....

4 a rounended shape load bar appears under the cog nothing seems to load it them disappears and the cog keeps going
That is an indication that your Hard Drive has directory damage. It will attempt a repair and then proceed. It would be prudent to use your Installer/Utilities DVD to explicitly Repair the Boot Drive:
Boot to the Installer/Utilities DVD, but do not Install.
Answer only the "what language" question and wait a quarter minute for the MenuBar to be drawn.
Choose Disk Utility off the Utilities Menu
Select your Boot drive by Hardware_name. Check the lower right of the pane for SMART Status = Verified.
( Repair Disk ) This takes several minutes. If any issues, run again until clean, or hopelessly stuck.
Report any error messages, word-for-word, back here.

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I have not. I am hoping someone (maybe even from Oracle support) will step up and officially tell us we are either right or wrong in the way we are approaching this. From the research I have done on the internet it sounds like this should work, you should be able to have Oracle starting and running fine whether you boot connected to the LAN or not, assuming you have created the MS loopback adapter, assigned it a static IP, and changed the hostname entry in etc/hosts file as part of the 10G WinXP recommended pre-installation instructions.
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fwiw,
ADG13
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig/all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : IBM-6AB1330E158
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : ibm.com
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Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
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Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.110.250
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
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Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-25-13-96-AF
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.102
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
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Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:40:08 AM
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Description . . . . . . . . . . . : AGN Virtual Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-01
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 9.49.217.159
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 9.49.217.159
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 9.0.2.1
9.0.3.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:06:20 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, January 18, 2038 10:14:07 PM

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