Wiped out

Monday was not a good day for my "windows" machine. I had been noticing that is was acting kinda flaky and ran the system file checker utility and still had no improvement. Then I tried rebooting and my computer would just blue screen and say some registry components were missing. Of course my system is more complicated than your typical off the shelf computer like you'd get from Dell or Best Buy. For improved disk performance, I have 3 80GB SATA 7200 rpm Western Digitals in a RAID 0 Stripe (10,000 rpm WD raptors will never be in my budget). No fault tolerance, aint I smart? All I care about is my Half Life 2 load times, windows boots mega quick too. Lucky for me I do back up regularly, just the really important files. I estimate I had around 20 gigs of music and mp3s and other junk that I didn't bother backing up. Oh well, I figured my computer needed some cleaning up. Now I dropped it down to just 2 drives in a RAID 0 setup and did a clean XP install. The other 80 gig will be used to hold somewhat important stuff. I only noticed a marginal speed difference between using 2 drives vs. 3 drives.
I have data all over the place actually. With 5 hard drives inside my computer, why wouldn't I? Of course all the time windows wouldn't start, my Linux drive filled the gap nicely.