Thumb drive files not accesable

When I inserted a thumb drive I having being using for years, I got a recommended message that I should scan and fix my drive, since I did this I can no longer see files and folders on this drive, they are still taking up 60gig of space and my virus scanner
sees there are files, but explorer shows no files present. When I try to repair this drive it says thee is insufficient space to recover.

Can you format the thumb drive and check?
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