How to remove the old timemachine/backup files from an old hard drive

I did not use a hard disk for time machine for several years (replaced by the 3 TB model). I had a few back normal of the files on it and everything just deleted the folder backups.backupdb. All but 7 mb removed. I then filled the hard disk with the other files. Now, I want to remove these 7 MB.

I said my mac to remove all the locked files, no luck. I changed the permissions of the main folder, open and said the mac to do the same to inclusive all files, no luck. I did the same thing to each folder in the folder backupdb, no luck.

I even dug deep into the HD/system/library/coreservices records and released the boot.efl and bootx files and no removal of chance.

A secure boot has not helped.

Reformatting the drive is not an option that I have thousands of files on that drive.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

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