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What are install* eula* and hash code directories sitting on the root of my drive?

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I get these all of the time. I am guessing they are Windows Update, but why they are writing to the root of my secondary hard drive I do not know. The partition is not marked as a system partition. Any idea what these are and how to get rid of them permanently?

Error Output

Directory of E:\

11/19/2009  09:57 PM    <DIR>          37d32bf0bb1d8cfe965e970f000a609d
11/19/2009  06:10 PM    <DIR>          ac8cc0e29dcc41086f66…

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Those are from the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable package. That's a little mistake on Microsoft's part, they were supposed to be written to the temp directory on the C drive, but instead they end up being written to the root of whichever drive has …

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