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Description

"Boot record signature AA55 not found..."

Solution

If you installed Winows NT on a large HD, and the NT boot partition starts above 4GB, you may receive the above given failure report by Windows NT. The operating system 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.

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.

... (3030 found)" This may indicate that the master boot record is corrupt. Try rewriting it.