Of all the Os's; NT is the least one i have installed. but this is Unusual. I have to install NT Works on a P-4 1.5 Ghz, jetway 845 MB(onboard SavageDDR Vga), 128 mb SD-ram, 40 GB Samsung. below is the the synopsis of my installation procedure.

Boot fresh from 98 bootable (with CD ROM Support).
run A:\fdisk. enter No for large disk support (so the drive created r/is FAT 16 for NT).
Create primary drive(2 gb). Make it active Reboot to apply changes.
Format Cthe drive is formatted in Fat 16).
got to A:\; type smartdrv and enter
Got to CD rom(D:\) and change dir to i386 (d:\i386)
type lock c: (i.e- D:\i386\LOCK C: )
enter Y
Let the installation continue then all the usual thing happens(Select drive C, Do you wanna convert to NTFS, Etc. ETC).
Until this point the Installation is called "Dos-Mode-Installation". All setup files are copied to drive and then the machines reboots. Now on rebooting setup should enter in GUi mode. but in my case the error shows up "Missing operating System".

I have tried everything , changed ram, changed motherboard, got a TNT-32 MB AGP. But the problem just persists.

BTW i sucessfully installed Win98 on the same system .and formatted it.

Does any body knows the solutions.

How big is the partition? FAT16 just wont work at all over a gig or so. Also are you mutlibooting, and if not try just booting off the NT4 cd, instead of formatting/fdisking with the win98 cd first.

Be sure to check you bios & make suer the proper drive boots. Also make sure you made the partition the first one on the drive & the MBR i/s ok.

Ok; problem solved. only partitioned primary to 1.9 GB. installed NT4 and the n partitioned rest of the drive using Computer management from control panel. [/quote]

You are using Fat16? back to da roots.
Dont unterstand why you installed win.NT...its crap

I'm not even gonna get involved with this statement...