Discovered unknown drivers I don’t recognize
Discovered unknown drivers I don’t recognize
I ran Farbar Recovery Scan on drivers in addition.txt and noticed some unusual entries. My setup includes five standard drivers, two SSDs, and three HDDs. When the scan found three unknown ones, I felt concerned. I also checked Device Manager—hidden volumes showed 11 drives, which seems unusual. I created a virtual box just to test it, but I’m not sure if that affects things. In addition.txt, the listed drives are:
- Volume efb4aeb0-5e1c-48bc-9f0e-14b2d2356a86 (Recovery, Fixed, 0.52 GB free)
- Volume 9c1f8824-667d-4076-a56c-180ec7674aa9 (FAT32, Fixed, 0.09 GB free)
- Volume 5deb4ee3-bb1b-4b74-abd9-8dfa4e7923c7 (FAT32, Fixed, 0.19 GB free)
Have you used any virus or malware scanning tools recently? If so, they might not have detected anything. If this looks suspicious, consider running a full system scan and checking for unknown files or processes.
This is a EFI partition used for the bootloader, if i'm not mistaken This is a recovery partition, which windows automatically creates. Since this one doesn't have any specifier, I don't really know what it is. But I've never heard of a virus/malware creating a random partition.
Some malware creates hidden partitions, but they are often found by different antivirus tools. This particular case might be a minor space allocation issue. When Windows divides available space, it sometimes assigns a full GB and leaves the rest in an unused partition. Another possibility is that it’s a leftover boot drive from an earlier Windows setup that wasn’t deleted before reinstalling.