Corrupt hard drive help

[Chyge]

My main hard drive recently corrupted and refused to start up. After installing windows on another drive in an attempt to check the corrupt drive, i've found that the computer will not boot windows if the corrupt drive is plugged in. Is there any way around this? I have tried to use recovery console to run chkdsk but since the drive is not assigned a letter it doesn't appear.

So, in summary, is there any way that i can repair this drive back to its original function, or is it beyond help?

 

[Pepicek]

I beg your pardon to ask a stupid question since I do not know your skill level, but sometimes knowing mine, I have to ask:
you did alter the jumpers on each of the hard drives for master/slaves, right?

 

[Chyge]

Yeah, i did. The corrupt drive is now running off of raid because i had no ide slots left.

 

[aBg_rOnGak]

Could u please list out ur settings, which hd is ide/sata/raid etc.... plus ur bios settings (RAID etc)...

 

[Chyge]

IDE 1

Prim Master - 20 GB HDD
Prim Slave - 80 GB HDD

Ide 2

sec master - cd rom
sec slave - cdrw

Raid 1

Master - 40 GB hdd

Raid 2

Master - 40 GB hdd (the corrupt one), when not active the computer works fine, when active doesn't.