Re: Odd Compute Behavior

>     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.