Windows 10 Why is there 504 gigabytes of system and reserved files on my external drive?

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For some context, I have three drives: a 256gb SSD in which my operating system and some program files are; an internal 1tb hard drive that's just a bit cluttered, albeit healthy; and another 1tb external hard drive that is having issues. A couple months ago, my computer tried to auto update or something along those lines and then went nuclear. That itself has since been resolved, however, it left my external drive looking pretty grim with a large amount of corrupted files. I've manually wiped a lot of the found.00X folders, but for some reason, my external hard drive is still reading as 504 g

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