Bad NT 4.0 Install

Hello TechRep members,
I work at a local technical college in the tech support dept. and I’ve got an NT situation that’s about to drive me crazy. Even our NT subject matter expert is somewhat boggled about this one. During an install one of the staff here at work was unable to complete an NT install on a brand new machine. When attempting to do so he receives an error: One or more of hard disks has more than 1024 cylinders. It also goes on to say: Unable to locate the hard disk partitionprepared by MS-DOS at setup. Any suggestions are welcome and many thanks in advance!!!