Weird file found in my systems C-drive, virus?

[EvilHorace]

I'm looking at files in my servers C-drive (which is the Win98SE partitions drive btw) and I find this weird named file that I've never seen before called "$win_nt$.`bt" created Friday 10/26 11:30 pm exactly when I upgraded the PC to XP and not only is NT or Win2K NOT any part of that partition, I've never seen that file before either. I used the same disk that I used in this PC yet that file doesn't exist in this PC (did a search)
I open it up and see even more bizarre names in the various readme files, like signature =$Chicago$ (many files, readme.txts) and under "biosinfo" (like a driver file), it reads things like:
DelReg=BadIDEDelReg
DelReg=BadPciHacks
DelReg=DelACPIReg
DelReg=USBDisableSelectiveSuspendDelReg
DelReg=DelToshibaHibernateReg
Then further down I see things like "BadPciIrqRoutingDelReg" and "DelPCIHacks" plus

MUST match APM_BIOS_KNOWN_BAD in syssetup\clasinst.c

Dunno, maybe with all my bad PC "luck" lately I'm being paraniod BUT WTF is that? I don't see anything usefull in there that's anything else I'm using. The word or name Toshiba doesn't exist in my PC either.

How did it get there when I was installing XP from the same disc that I used on this PC and why is it installed in the partition where Win2K now AFUd XP isn't?

Any ideas?

[FlyingPenguin]

XP almost certainly put it there. XP is NT at it's core.

[b-man1]

that looks like one of the setup files that is loaded during the initial stages of an NT (or XP) install....which are normally removed after the install is completed.

did you run a setup and not finish, or have problems with one at some time? that could be it.

[EvilHorace]

http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=13873

Yes, that's probably the case as you're right, it hasn't yet fully installed...a cluster $%#! INHO.

I'm certainly glad that no one's told me it's anything else of a more serious nature.

Although I'd like to be able to fix it, I'll probably end up doing what FP recommended and re-install Win2K back into that box. It looks as though XP isn't ready for 'prime time' on ALL PCs yet.