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You need to backup your files due to the failure problem and also you can check the warranty of your hard drive from seagate. If it is still in warranty you can send the Faulty Drive to Seagate and they will replace it with a new one. You can register tour product here and check the warranty.
It looks like you have two arrays here. The first one being a mirrored RAID array and has only one disk. This means that the other disk has failed in some sort. This does not mean that the drive is bad, just the RAID failed for some reason. You will need to rebuild the RAID if you want to maintain the same level of redundancy.
You can just attempt a rebuild the RAID to the same drives but if this fails you will want to replace the bad drive. In order to do this you will need to make sure you can tell which drive is which. You do not want to mirror the bad drive to the good one.
If attempting a rebuild to the existing drive does not work or is not an option (because the failed drive could really be bad), you will need to determine which physical drive needs to be replaced. You may be able to hot-swap the drive but if you can power things down, that is always safest. Once the new drive is installed, you can rebuild to it and all should be well after that.
Let's see how much left on your hardisk and how much space that your programs used in your disk..do this..
Double click the "My Computer" icon Right click on your "Local Disk (C:)" drive and click properties... The blue color indicator will tell you how much space was used by your programs on your hardisk.. The pink color indicator will tell you how much free space left on your hardisk The capacity value should be more or less 19 GB.. See if this capacity value match in your drive..
If the capacity value of your drive is below 10 GB then my guess is you have a wrong setting for your hardisk... Look physically in your hardisk. Between the port of ide cable and power supply connector you will see terminals with jumper on it.. The jumper is used to short the terminal. the function of the terminal is to assign the hardisk as slave, master, cable connector and or limit the capacity of the hardisk to some amount.. Check the label of the hardisk.. schematic diagram on it will explain where to put the jumper...
If the setting of the jumper was correct and the capacity value of your drive match to approximately 19 GB... then I suggest you browse the files on your drive. Check all its sizes.. There could be movies there that eats your space.
I hope I explained to you everything you need to know..
The motherboard is not the problem. Your hardisk is the problem. See if your hardisk is detected during boot up procedure. If it does... Run again your Windows XP CD installer and repair your operating system. Having "Disk Boot Failure" error means the boot system of you operating system is corrupted. If your hardisk is not detected... you better check if the power supply connector on your hardisk is secured and not loose.. If still not detected.. your hardisk crashed and need to be replace.
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