Raspberry Pi SD card appears as 3 SD cards - raspberry-pi

I have purchased a raspberry pi 3 b+ kit from Amazon. No complaints, but recently I decided I would update NOOBS from 2.7 to 3.0.
When I connect the SD Card to my PC (Debian Stretch), it shows as if there’s 3 separate SD Cards. Being case sensitive, they’re called SETTINGS, System and Storage.
Why does this sd card show up as 3 separate card on my PC?
What I have tried:
I deleted the contents of System, Storage and SETTINGS and replaced
it with the files from NOOBS 3.0
I google searched for why the sd card shows as 3
I put my phone’s sd card into my PC and it showed as 1 sd card (but
I’m not willing to switch cards)

If you already run Debian on your PC, I would probably recommend you ignore NOOBS altogether, and just flash the whole Raspbian image to your SD card.
Then touch boot/ssh to start sshd and add a wpa_supplicant file to boot partition so your WiFi can connect.
When you then start your RasPi, just run sudo raspi-config and expand your root partition and all will be good.

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https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md
Fresh raspian images are 2GB. If you copy such an image to a SD card, everything beyond that is unused. Fortunately this can easily be fixed.
In a console enter:
sudo raspi-config
The menu, which appears has as first menu item:
1 Expand Filesystem Ensures that all of the SD card
storage is available to the OS
1 Expand Filesystem Ensures that all of the SD card storage is available to the OS
Use it and you are done.