I am back up and running now. The data recovery service found that of the eight 146 GB drives the #3 and #7 were bad. The #3 had bad sectors and the #7 had scratched disks. They cloned the #3 and when I put back in seven of the eight drives with the clone I managed to boot to Windows 2008 R2 after a system recovery step. Everything was there and then I installed a replacment #7 drive. All is well.
The quesiton I have now is, does HP or any software vender have some hard drive monitoring software I can install on this that will give me an alert if problems start occureing? If so what is that called? Or do I just need to learn how to configure what is already in 2008 R2?
Thanks