ace encryption question

I was given a hard drive and on this drive I see a list of files that are kinda strange, here's what they look like-
There are 20 files in sequence that appear to be part of a larger one.
The first is p6.ace, the next is p6.c00.net (two dots), this sequence continues up to number 17 which is followed by the last file which is named p6.sfv.net.
Among this list, some are named, p6.cxx..ne (the "x" is a number in the sequence). One file is called p6.cxx..c1 (two dots).
The .net extensions files are listed as type - 'Filemaker Pro 4.0 Networking Module'. The '..ne' extension files are 'NE File' types, and finally, one '..c1' file is a 'C1 File' type. Of course the first file which shows a .ace extension is a 'Ace archive' type.
The Ace program cannot open these files. I have a dos file identifier program and it states these are Ace files.
All are 5,000KB with the last is the sequence, number 17, as 50KB in size. The very last one, p6.sfv.net is 1KB in size.

I can open the sfv file in notepad and here is what it shows-
Generated by WIN-SFV32 v1.5 on 12/22/2000 at 2:10:25 PM
p6.ace D35F76A8
p6.c00 E17360F4
p6.c01 B299F002
p6.c02 7222665E
p6.c03 4714C67C
p6.c04 7D68796F
p6.c05 BB40DAAA
p6.c06 B0FB4B95
p6.c07 5D930185
p6.c08 CE9AB6FF
p6.c09 B648919B
p6.c10 2CBD09E7
p6.c11 88EAE7D2
p6.c12 26DAB6CF
p6.c13 E6221BE7
p6.c14 FC0123EF
p6.c15 E9879079
p6.c16 15F7505F
p6.c17 821E20BD

What is this stuff?, look too good to erase.
Greg

 

That file you opened in notepad looks like a list of checksums - one for each file. A checksum is a way of verifying that a file is "comlete ", kind of like a "byte total ". With a checksum, it's easy to tell if a file has become corrupt somehow or downloaded badly.

Files named ****00, ****01, ****02 etc (in sequence) look like partial files. That is, they were one big file, but have been split up into smaller sections, usually so they can be transported on floppies or similar.

In DOS, you can put them together like so...
copy /b ****00+****01+****02 bigfile.ext

This will join the files together as one big new file, "bigfile.ext "

It's similar to the Linux "cat" command (hint: If you're wanting to "hack around "anything, I suggest Linux may be more useful to you than Windows / DOS. With that extra hard drive, why not try it out? It's free)

...oh - and just because your computer recognises the ".net" extension as one thing, the other compute5r may very likely know it to be something else. It depends what programs you have installed.

P.S: Personally, I think you should just wipe the hard drive. I understand your curiousity, though on an ethical level, if I gave you a hard drive, I wouldn't want you to probe around seeing what you could find out about me on it.