Cannot see files and folders on hard drive after reinstall of Tiger

Hi all!
I just had to reinstall Tiger on my iMac G5 and when I look at my hard drive in Disk Utility it says I have 70000 some odd files and I've used 180GB of my hard drive but I haven't. I wiped it clean with zeroes before the reinstall, or so I thought. I can't see any of these "old" folders or files.
How do I reclaim this space?
Thanks in advance!
DW

Yes it was the MacIntosh HD volume.
I ended up recreating the partition booting with the OS X CD and using Disk Utility and then reinstalled Tiger. Now it works, and I have all my hard drive space available.
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