20gb gone missing

[WhiteBoy]

I reformatted earlier today, and tonight, when I went to watch a movie, my folder that contained all my movies was gone. At first I thought that I must have deleted it by accident, but after a few minutes searching, I checked my hard drive space and it said:

Free space: 131 GB
Total Space: 233 GB

Though, when I select all the files on my drive, it only comes to roughly 82GBs used. This is my secondary drive, and being so, it doesn't have a bunch of hidden files and such for the Operating System. So I've been trying to figure out what could be taking up the extra space. Last time I checked, my movie folder was roughly 19-20gbs. So it makes me wonder if my files are still there, but I just can't access them. Does anybody have any past experience with this kind of thing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[NonStopableForce]

Eh, reformated? Then nothing should be there at all..
What did you format it as?

And on every hd hooked up to windows, there is a hidden RECYCLER folder, which contains deleated files just like the recycling bin on your desktop, but it is for that drive only.

-NSF

 

[WhiteBoy]

I guess I should have mentioned that I have two hard drive. The drive which I was refering to was my secondary drive, and it was the main drive that I reformatted.

EDIT: Well, I found the files. They were in a folder that was considered a protected system folder, so they didn't show when I selected to show hidden files. They were in a folder named found.000, along with several other files that apparently had gone missing as well.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Opps.....