Just incase anyone is wondering where I've been all day, the main hard drive on my machine died this morning
I did have a raid set up, but for some reason the raid was not copying over the OS files, so I can't get that drive (which sounds like it's ok) to boot.
PLUS
It seems the raid card installed something onto my motherboard, so when I go to put a brand new drive in there without the raid, it doesn't let me even install Windows
MML (who does not do windows - LOL) is driving up here tomorrow with his nephew to hopefully solve my problems & restore some of my data.
I'll be scarce for a little bit..............