OK...now im confused. I used the recovery console...and could not see my raid partitions. I ran bootcfg /scan at the consle...and got an error saying the boot.ini is damaged or something similar. Then i just reset....and.....XP started. FOr no reason. I did 20 resets...and all of a sudden it works. Why XP....why........

THanks for the help though...the information was very helpful as I am now interested in creating a slipstream disk. Ill do some searches on how to make one. Thanks again.

chutamango