office on computer after being shredded and formatted!

[techywiz2007]

yesterday i shredded and wiped a hdd, formatted it with an oem xp disk, and installed xp on it, when i booted up, it looked just like all the others, nothing was on it, not even the drivers yet, (stilll having problem with audio, (ms bus driver needs to be installed)) i was looking around in my cmd lines, and on the desktop, it said that the ms office setup.exe was there, i looked at the desktop,... nothing! i looked back and restarted the cmd, and it still read that it was there on the desktop! i told it to extract, and i somehow was able to reinstall office 2000 on it without the disk, and it wasn't even on the desktop where it was read!

does anyone know how it could possibly have gotten there without being shown?

[phkninja]

what did you use for hdd wipe and shred, and how many iterations did you run?

Secondly the setup.exe may have been overwritten but the FAT or NTFS file info may not have been

[techywiz2007]

ubcd disk wipe, 2 passes,

[phkninja]

2 pases should have wiped it, but to make it properly secure run Darik's Boot and Nuke, run it with a DoD 5220 or a Gutmann wipe to totally erase the data.

[techywiz2007]

ok, i just thought that was really wierd, it saying it's on the desktop, when it's not, and also having the complete setup .exe for both disks complete without error,

i installed all of microsoft office 2000 without any problem, or the disks,

i just don't know how it got there, and why it's hidden