Don't understand my My Passport external drive

I have been backing up my laptop every Monday night to MyPassport external drive. Last week my laptop had to have the hard drive replaced. Today I got it back and thankfully they copied the old drive to a file folder on my desktop. approx 175Gig. Why would my MyPassport say it contains 1 Terabyte used of the 2T available if it is only a “copy” of what I have on my laptop? The new replaced hard drive is a 500Gig unit so naturally I cannot copy my files over. I’m so confused. I’ve been doing what I was told to do… weekly backups so I wouldn’t loose my files and once again I have issues and cannot use the backup version. (Thankfully I have moved my desktop file into place).
Can anyone explain what is happening?

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Hi. No WD Support TRIED to help me and was unable to. He Closed the file as complete… which caused me to come to the community to try to get answers.

Sharon1789

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