My friend brought over his comp becuase it has been very sluggish and 
the rest of the regular complaints. After trying to irradicate all the 
spyware and malware that was installed on his box, I decided that the 
easiest solutions would be a clean install. When ever I ran the spybot or 
adaware the computer would reboot during the scan or would crash. I 
installed a new virus scanner, his was trial version, and same problems with 
the virus scanner. So I used his WinXP cd to scrub the hd and re-install. I 
had the hardest time even getting the program to format the HD, so I assume 
there are bad sectors on the outer regions on one of the plates.
     I finally get a good format, and install. When it comes time to reboot 
I get a very unusual error :Error Loading Operating System. Now, I can 
install Fedora and get it to boot in to X11 with no problems. The install 
can be a bit hairy, but i have limited the install partion to 10GB and that 
seems to work every time now. So I tried the same scenario with XP, this 
time no format complaints no halts no crashes, reboot, Error Loading 
Operating System. Does anyone have any ideas about this. I have exhausted my 
knowledge.


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