Odd Compute Behavior

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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