JSI Tip 0931. Windows NT won't boot: "Boot record signature AA55 not found...".

Jerold Schulman

December 18, 1998

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If you installed Winows NT on a large HD, and the WinNT partition starts above 4GB, you may receive:

    Boot record signature AA55 not found (25EB found) Windows NT could not   start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could   not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.   Please check the Windows NT documentation about hardware disk   configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional   information.

Use another operating system (or an alternate boot) to edit c:boot.ini and change the multi() syntax to the scsi() to defeat the miscalculation error in the multi() code.

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