External TM drive shows zero contents, but no space available

I bought a new iMac i7, sold my G5 Quad and wanted to recover some files from my G5 Time Machine backup.
I connected my TM external 1.0TB drive to the new iMac. It shows free space of only 100GB, used 870GB... but contents zero, nada, no back up, nothing! The drive is empty, except I only have 100GB "free space".
I'm freaking out inside - just a little, since there must be slightly over 175GB of images now missing, residing somewhere — invisibly — on my TM drive. Any suggestions or help anyone?

Charlie Fellowes wrote:
Hey, thanks... but I tried both those options earlier. The +'Browse Other TM disks'+ saw nothing,
What do you mean? Did the disk appear in the list of disks containing TM backups?
yet TM prefs clearly tells me there is only a shade over 100GB left on this (1.0TB) drive.
What do you see if you look at the disk with Finder? (Be very careful not to move, change, or delete anything there via the FInder). There should be a single folder named Backups.backupdb. Inside it should be a single folder with your old computer's name; inside that should be a series of folders with the dates & times of backups.
My data transfer has been successful with two exceptions — music and images.
WHAT data transfer? What did you do? Didn't you say nothing was there?

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