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 #10967  by Kiuhnm
 Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:33 pm
Hi,
I'm getting acquainted with bootkits and I found out that the first partition of my hd is located at offset 0x3F. My PC is running Windows 7 and I'm told the default offset is 0x800. Any reason why Windows installer should decide to change the default settings?
 #10984  by Vrtule
 Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:06 pm
Hello,

did you created the partition with Windows 7 Installer? Or did the partition exist before the installation was done?
 #10998  by Kiuhnm
 Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:19 am
You're right. I installed 7 over XP and probably selected the existing partition. I didn't think about that.