On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 12:04, Aaron Cordova wrote: > 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. ---- There is a known problem in Fedora 2 (FC-2) with dual-boot also, those who use Fedora 2 should be familiar with this web page. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss