I was given an OEM XP box that, when fully booted, displayed nothing. By that I mean the desktop was bare and Explorer could not "see" any files. I was at a loss.
I booted the machine using an OEM XP install CD and was rather surprised to discover a new partition had been added to the drive at the end. It was flagged as an OS/2 boot manager partition and consumed 2MB of space.
I was going to wipe the machine anyway, but as a point of curiosity, I deleted this partition just to see what would happen. Predictably, the machine refused to boot, so it was relying on this rogue boot partition.
Anyone ever run into this before? Is it the result of a virus or trojan? The client had MSE installed with the latest definitions, so whatever it was got through it.
I booted the machine using an OEM XP install CD and was rather surprised to discover a new partition had been added to the drive at the end. It was flagged as an OS/2 boot manager partition and consumed 2MB of space.
I was going to wipe the machine anyway, but as a point of curiosity, I deleted this partition just to see what would happen. Predictably, the machine refused to boot, so it was relying on this rogue boot partition.
Anyone ever run into this before? Is it the result of a virus or trojan? The client had MSE installed with the latest definitions, so whatever it was got through it.