Reformatting the Hard-Disk issue?

I recently did the zero-out erase several times due to issues with the system running smoothly. I expected to come out of the reformat with a clean HD. However, after I partitioned a new space, there were three folders and two files remaining on the disk. I'm afraid that it may be some corrupt files that is preventing OS X from operating efficiently. The files take up a bit over 300MB. Called into Apple care services and talked with a senior advisor, but he doesn't seem to know what the files there may signify... Anybody else seem to have any files and folders left after reformatting their hard drive?
Note: I tried to zero-out erase the partition to remove the files several times after the wipe, but no cigar... Also, tried repartitioning, but the 300MB+ files remained persistently.

Okay. I'm going to spend an hour of my life teaching you something...
I've recently upgraded the hard drive in my 17" MacBook Pro. The original drive is now in an enclosure, but I haven't done anything with its contents yet.
Here is a picture of that drive, below which is a screenshot of the drive as it appears in Disk Utility...
Now I'm going to reformat the drive to demonstrate to you, in spite of your expectations, that what I told you above is true...
First, I'll select the drive in DU (it is called Other World Computing here because that's who makes the enclosure) and choose Erase:
Now, the drive has been erased, its two partitions destroyed, and we see that in the new volume, 425 MB of space have been used for 40 files.
You mentioned something about partitioning your drive (although by your description, it isn't exactly clear what you meant), so I've partitioned my drive in half, and we see that 301.1 MB of space is now being used on the volume Untitled 1. (Take my word, please, that the volume Untitled 2 is using about the same amount of space for the 40 files it also contains.
Now, let's look at what's inside those folders and files using RBrowser. (Apologies in advance for screwing up the formatting of your topic by posting such a large image.):
So, here we are. The folders and files that are created when you format a hard drive are created by the system. It is normal behavior, and behavior you should expect to see when formatting a hard drive anew.
Good luck!

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This email is regards to the complaint on Lenovo All in desktop i purchased which is still there in warranty.
I purchased All in one desktop on 25/02/2014 in one of the outlet of Reliance Digital, Bangalore,India.
Below is the detail of the product -
SN : CSxxxxxxxx
Product Family : C240
Machine type : 10113.
I was getting "Error 1962 : Operating system not found" . and raised a request to rectify the problem. The service engineer came with new hard drive for replacing it. I asked for my data and they told it's customer responsibility to make the data back up. He himself gave the hard disk which was there with hard disk and asked me to back up with some third party vendor.
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For your reference :Ticket number : TVSE/IDEA/7006373733/
I also sent email to [email protected] from whom i am receiving the emails stating that they will resolve the issue but no action was taken from last 20 days.
I just wanted to check whether Lenovo execut\ives are really meant to serve customer issues? If somebody is there please let me know. Otherwise i will just throw this harddisk and say good bye to Lenovo and it's products in future.
Regards,
Bhuvanesh K,
+91-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Admin Edit; s/n & private information edited to prevent them being abused

bhuvanesh_k wrote:
This email is regards to the complaint on Lenovo All in desktop i purchased which is still there in warranty.
I purchased All in one desktop on 25/02/2014 in one of the outlet of Reliance Digital, Bangalore,India.
Below is the detail of the product -
SN : CSxxxxxxxx
Product Family : C240
Machine type : 10113.
I was getting "Error 1962 : Operating system not found" . and raised a request to rectify the problem. The service engineer came with new hard drive for replacing it. I asked for my data and they told it's customer responsibility to make the data back up. He himself gave the hard disk which was there with hard disk and asked me to back up with some third party vendor.
I visited Cadons, Bangalore for data back up and after checking Cadons engineer told hard drive is completely dead better contactLenovo again so that they will repair it and give one it is repaired i he told he will be able to make data back up.
I again called customer care executive and told that third party vendor was not able to make the data back because of hard drive failure but they are refusing to repair hard drive and each time i am receiving a call from service engineer and are just trying to close the ticket at the earliest by replacing the hard drive. No one is bothering about repairing the hard drive and helping me to take my data back up.
For your reference :Ticket number : TVSE/IDEA/7006373733/
I also sent email to [email protected] from whom i am receiving the emails stating that they will resolve the issue but no action was taken from last 20 days.
I just wanted to check whether Lenovo execut\ives are really meant to serve customer issues? If somebody is there please let me know. Otherwise i will just throw this harddisk and say good bye to Lenovo and it's products in future.
Regards,
Bhuvanesh K,
+91-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Dear Bhuvanesh K,
Sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. Our team has been trying to get in touch with you at the provided number, however, there was no response. Request you to let us know a convenient time to call.
Warm Regards,
Reliance Digital

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
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"Enable Data Execution Protection (DEP) in the BIOS and make sure the Format of drive file system is not fat32.
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2. Disable "Intel IPMI Service" and "Intel Monitoring Agent" Service.
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9. Try attaching or adding the VHD again after rebooting.
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PERCY

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