Oh no! blue screens HELP!

Hi,
ive just returned home for xmas, and taken my pc with me.
I was very careful with the little guy, and protected it in transit.
HOWEVER.
Upon returning home, and setting up the pc, it worked for one day and then i received the blue screens of doom.
"Error unmountable boot volume"
I have 2 maxtor 160 gig SATA drives running in RAID 0 off the promise controller.
There are no reported problems in the promise bios screen.
I have checked the connections and everything seems ok.
This has happened before, the only way i could solve it was to re-format the drives, and reinstall XP Pro.....
However most of my installation disks are at my other address, and i have not backed up my files for a while, so i REALLY dont want to re-format.
Does anyone know any way to save the drives/data? or make the pc boot?
your help would be invaluable!
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME

No, unfortunately i do not (damn i was going to with the last re-install )
Good idea though, thanks.
Since this has happened before, i wonder if the drives are a little buggy- i know pc's hate being moved, but i was very gentle
Just had a long bath and a think but i am still stumped as to how to get them to boot....
If i was going to install XP onto a seperate partition, how large should it be, and would you recommend running in RAID 0 or 1?
Any more ideas on how to save my HD's and data anyone?

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