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Server 2008 R2 Failure

I was doing routine maintenance last night on our new Server 2008 R2 machine, when Quickbooks gave me some issues when trying to apply the update.  Ran the QBInstallTool, which then requested that I reboot my server.  So I did... I had rebooted my server not more than 45 minutes before hand without issue at all.  But after trying the QBtool, as soon as the server booted up to show the mouse icon, right before it shows that it is loading up the services, it beeps and reboots... stuck in an endless loop... I have already been on the phone with Microsoft (indian) tech support for over 5 hours trying to get this thing back up... I need help... All of the automated Microsoft tools are not working.  They just error out.  We even did a command line backup restore, of the C: drive (windows drive) to no avail... I need help and suggestions!

Using an Areca ARC-1222 RAID card, with 8 SATA II drives in raid array.  Has been working flawlessly for 3 months now.
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No, because I don't want to ruin the RAID array... And I have done multiple checks on the RAID array and everything shows as healthy...  I have two huge databases that I have to have back.  And I need it running tomorrow... Everything about this doesnt make any sense... I get no BSOD to tell me an error code... just beeps and reboots.  I pulled one drive, and then reseated, making the array have to rebuild, I guess we will see if that fixes it... I don't know what else to do...
Meant I needed it back up and running yesterday... Has been a very long 40 hours...
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Will try that now.
It wont let me install to the secondary drive plugged directly into the mobo sata ports.  I checked in BIOS, and they are active and it shows the drive, and it will even show it when I go to select it for install in the Windows Installer utility, but it just says that it cannot install to that partition, and to see the logs....
I can get the raid to load through the command prompt in the windows installer, and I can view all of the data... Does anyone know of a good bootable cd that will let you clone the data directly?
Any other insights? Suggestions?
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How about safe mode? Did works?  What type of backup do you using did you have bare metal recovery?
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Was on the phone with MS Server Tech Support for over 5 hours and they could not help come to a conclusion either.  Finally ran out of time and had to find some what to make it work, and I did...