error loading operating system

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a friend of mine is having trouble installing windows XP, after he's formatted the disk and XP's loaded all the files and it reboots, insted of going into loading windows and the setup screen it just comes up with an error message "error loading operating system"

any ideas why?
 
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His comp’s not been clocked yet, and I don’t think he’s planning to, a friend of mine (different friend) suggested that it might be a memory problem as when installing XP the system files are installed to and run from the preloaded memory on the first reboot so how would you test the memory without having an OS? Something that can be loaded from a boot CD-ROM (I can make one of them)
 
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