My Book Essential Edition

I recently bought a 320 gig My Book Essential Edition external hard drive to back up my poor, suffering, overwhelmed iBook (OS X 10.3.9). It says Plug and Play, and when I plug it in, it shows up on the desktop, but nothing else happens. When I try clicking on setup.exe, my computer starts to open OS 9. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is my OS not compatible with the My Book?
Help!
Alyce

Alyce, Welcome to the discussion area!
".exe" files are Windows executable files. The only way to use them on your iBook is to purchase and install VirtualPC.
I found the following directions on the Western Digital site:
Once the hard drive has been mounted to the desktop, open the My Book Premium Edition hard drive icon on the desktop, open the "Mac" folder and run the program called WD Button Manager Software.dmg to install the "Fuel Gauge" functionality which monitors drive space usage on the hard drive. Run the program called WD Backup.dmg to install the WD Backup software.

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