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.