Robert, you were quite right. NT does not like being to far from home base.
Installed NT on the D:\ partition without any trouble at all. Could not have
been smoother.
Now all I have to do is resize a couple of partitions and relocate some
directories.

Many thanks and maybe these posts will be of help to anyone else who may
experience
problems  with NT installations.

Regards,
Alan Priol.


>I have just installed NT 4.0 on a new HD. It appeared to go quite
>smoothly until the reboot to startup. The bootup stopped with the
>message - Problem found with the harddrive setup. Boot record signature
>AA55 not found (0000 found)- Read the NT(TM) documentation about
>hardware configuration.
>I am not sure exactly what is required to look for.
>Can anyone help me here?.
>The HD(6.4gb) is in 4 partitions, C:\is FAT16,to accomodate the NT
>files, D:&E: are FAT32 and F:\is also FAT16 for NT.

Is NT installed on the F: partition.  If it is that would be your problem.
NT likes to be within the first number ( I can't recall the exact amount)
of sectors.  I had this problem when I tried moving NT down the drive on my
machine. I would think that if you install NT on any of the first two or
three partitions it will work fine.  If Nt resides on C: then I'll scratch
my head too.


Robert Phillips

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