Need Help: SAS Sys Drive W7 - recover PST and Mozilla Bkmarks

How it happened. Sick for a month w/ Flu, so I did a lot of research on another medical condition I have. About 3 days ago I noticed my computer had shut down while I was away.

I thought it may have been a power failure so I did the usual, first tried to run ChkDsk, but it would not run or allow me to set it up to run on reboot. Then I checked the Event log. A lot of red alerts over a 3 day prior period but none I could understand and none that indicated the system drive.

I really didn’t back up my 2 files but I should have before proceeding.

I then ran restore point back to 12/28 but it failed and dumped me into the windows repair utility. I ran the windows repair utility and it indicated that “windows will not start, does not have a valid partition table, repaired successfully”.

But windows still would not start. I have read many articles advising what to do and I ran the fixmbr.exe which reported “success”.

Now I am in a reboot loop which takes me back to the repair utility and my choices are to 1) run the repair utility, or 2) start windows normally. I have run the repair utility multiple times both with the onboard repair and an external repair disk. Same result as above every time.

When I select option2, start windows normally here’s what happens: normal boot routine for the motherboard, memcheck ok, mobo finds the SAS drive ok, windows reports “starting windows”, and I see the 4 banner red-green-blue-yellow banner, hard drive sounds normal – lots of disk access, then black screen with system light still on.

I have wished many times I had never taken up the SAS drive. It was my attempt to build a dream machine which would be super fast. It has been nothing but a heartbreak. Installation of the SAS drivers was very difficult, poor documentation, but finally with the help I found on the forums found an install process that worked. Final insult, the SAS drive never gave me the performance I expected. At the time I should have just bought the WD Raptor SATA at 10k rpms which was a good drive. Appreciate any suggestions from the group. Many thanks.

Here’s my system specs: I built this box in 2009 when the first i7 920 was available:
P6T6-WS-ASUS-Revolution
Intel i7 – 920
15k SAS Fujitsu system drive
Corsair PSU HX1000
Graphic Card: GIGABYTE GV-R485MC-1GI Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0
6 GB RAM: OCZ Platinum 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
CM Storm Scout case