On  8 Oct 98 at 0:04, Alan Priol wrote:

> 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 found a nice little description of this problem at
http://tigger.rdg.ac.uk/ntfaq/ntfaq_02JUN98.html#probsolv34

It suggests that FDISK /MBR has a reasonably good chance of fixing
the problem.  [This, in turn, suggests to me that a scan for viruses
*first* may be in order....]

  The problem seems to have something to do with NT being in an
extended partition.
  I suspect that you actually have two partitions on the drive; a
primary partition (C:) and an extended partition containing volumes
D:, E:, and F:.  Since D: and E: are FAT32, this extended partition
may be marked FAT32X rather than FAT16X, and that may be interfering
with the NT loader's ability to find F:.

David G

David, I checked the site you gave and it certainly has a wealth of NT
information.
I think it would take days just to check it out.
However, have returned all my partitions to FAT and did a clean install of
NT4.0 again.
Still getting the same problem, so it could be in the MBR., but I don't
fancy running FDISK/MBR
And losing many GB,s of data.
A thought though, would adding a second HD and installing NT on it overcome
the problem?.
What do you think?.
Also, what do you think of  Robert Phillips suggestion which was about
changing to a partition
close to the c:\drive?. Might be worth a try.

Thank you both for your help,

Regards,
Alan

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