WD Elements Boot sector - false flag?

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I’ve got a WD Elements 2 TB drive, model WDBAAU0020HBK.

I ran some security software on it yesterday (Comodo Cleaning Essentials).

For the first time, I told CCE to also look at the memory and boot sectors which is not the default setting.

It reported threats listed as “Rootkit.HiddenFile” and “Rootkit.HiddenDir.”

What I want to know, is are these files installed on WD Elements drives initially, and is this merely a false flag?

The record reports

N:\Boot\BCD

N:\Boot\BCD.LOG

N:\Boot\BOOTSTAT.DAT

N:\Boot\memtest.exe

.

.and a list of two dozen other files, similar to

N:\Boot\cs-CZ

N:\Boot\en-US

N:\Boot\Fonts

I found this a concern, because I also have one other external Elements drives hooked up and a MyBook Home drive hooked up, but the software didn’t flag anything on them. 

At any rate, I told Comodo Cleaning Essentials to ignore these Boot files.

Are these “Boot” files normal on my Elements drive, or is something troublesome going on here?

Thanks for any input.

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Hello,

Test the drive using the WD DLG tool, if it’s something wrong with the unit, it will let you know.

Check the link below

How to test a drive for problems using Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows

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Hi, The Elements doesn’t come with any included software, so you should be able to delete any files.