What are Found.00 files and folders?

What are Found.00 files and folders? Sometimes in my hard disk I can see some of the folders names Found.00 and etc in a hidden mode. I guess this is scan log folders and files . But why this has been created ? how do we get rid of those and what kind of information we can get it from those ?
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"I think these are files retrieved by ScanDisk/chkdsk. They usually contained orphaned fragments of files created when either a program or the computer crashed.

I've found this post from 2001 which asks the same question as you do. The answer as posted was:

These are a kind of log file that is created by scandisk everytime it runs on bootup and finds an error, you can safely delete these, without any problems

A more recent post on Tom's Hardware from 2005 says the same thing. It adds:

They are folders created by chkdsk and can be deleted. You won't be able to
get any meaningful data out of them.

If you notice files and/or folders going missing without a program hanging then I'd be more concerned that your disk or computer was about to fail. It might be prudent to do a full backup of your data just in case."