What are these folders in my ext hard-drive?

[Joshuashaw]

I have Maxtor Basics 500GB which aquired a virus as the USB port was infected, but it has been resolved and has been cleaned since but I have come across a few folders in the ext hard-drive which wasn't there when I bought it and was wondering if I could delete it. I have screenies of each, sorry poor they were done in Paint. The top pic is the over-view of my hardrive the unknown folders are the one in random digits.









Are these files alright to delete or compile if there so my E drive is cleaner? Thanks in advance.

[computeruler]

looks like maybe some sort of backup or something?

[Calum]

Those are backup or cache folders for Windows updates.
They can be safely deleted, but you may not be able to - if you can't remove them, use a utility called Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ - to unlock the folders first.
Hope this helps.

[computeruler]

yay i was right! i new it! and i thought about windows update folders too! i feel special

[Kurtiskain]

yay i was right! i new it! and i thought about windows update folders too! i feel special

haha yeah one of those folders is for if you want to uninstall a service pack though so if you have the room, sometimes it's best to keep these things, but it is entirely up to you

And btw, the gap is really a folder isn't it? 
I know your secret...haha
alt+0160 and no icon

[Joshuashaw]

Lol, a folder that if people found me with on my PC I'd get slaughtered, I bought well my parents did a version, but I dled the most recent. Much appreciated that folks, they all deleted simple & easy.

[Kurtiskain]

haha fair enough fair enough

[computeruler]

make a media server with the hard drive and give us all links lol