So Many *exe Files, So Little Time

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I've posted this morning about trying to get an old Gateway ('97, P2)
to recognize a WD external (80G). It won't. When I searched the
WD--on a laptop whose Internet capabilities need servicing--I looked to
see if I was successful copying a HUGE file (the driver for the laptop
modem) by "pasting" it from the old desktop into the desktop's WD
driver file.

Well, of course I wasn't. However, searching for *exe files on the WD,
I found *tons* of exe files from yesterday, the day before, and the day
before that--and the WD has been sitting untouched in a desk for about
a week.

Stupid question, but-- Do exe files "update?" Why would I have so
many new files when the external hasn't been used for a week? Can I
safely get rid of them?

Thanks.
 
I don't understand. How can you search the WD when you can't recognize
the drive? Please clarify?

Irwin
 
Oh, nevermind, you moved it to another computer. Got it.

I dunno, maybe the date and time were all wrong when the files were
written. Do you recognize the exe files? What are they, where did they
come from. It seem unlilkely you wrote them to the external drive a
week ago if all you did was copy one file and it didn't work anyhow.
 
Stop it Irwin. You are the newbie here.
You don't answer questions, you ask them.
 
Irwin said:
I don't understand. How can you search the WD when you can't recognize
the drive? Please clarify?
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Apologies for the abstruse post. I

1) downloaded the WD zip file supporting their USB externals for 98Se.
2) I unzipped this file and installed it on 98SE.
3) When the PCU did not add a "letter" to identify (and enable me to
use) the WD external, I tried copying the needed humongous laptop modem
driver via a ridiculous cut and paste method to the folder that *did*
manage to install on 98SE. (The WD folder included only the WD
driver!)
4) Obviously it didn't work--i.e., I could not unplug the WD from the
98SE, then plug it into my ThinkPad, and transfer the humongous modem
driver file.
5) Naytheless, I did a "Search" for "exe" files on the WD, just to
check and see if my stupid and desperate ploy was a success.
6) It was not--BUT there were tons of "exe" files from today,
yesterday, and the day before, during which times the WD external was
not only not in use but sitting in a desk drawer.
7) All of which led me to wonder where all those X Files--I mean EXE
Files--came from.
 
Folkert said:
Stop it Irwin. You are the newbie here.
You don't answer questions, you ask them.
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Folkert, I do hope you have agreed to leave your body for science.

I mean, how one earth does a brain as swollen as yours fit into a normal
cranial cavity?

You will have the medical scientists baffled for years.


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