Where are my file sizes??

Primarily a PC user, I have a 2nd 250GB HD dedicated only to media for FCP that has about 44GB left and I can't find where the 200GB or so has gone, since Mac OSX doesn't seem to give me ideas of the size of files. When I click on the drive, I get about 15GB accounted for. I want to clean up the drive but don't know where the remainder is...
My OS is on a separate HD. I'm used to PC which gives the size of every file, apparently Mac doesn't see a reason to do that? How can I find the files that will open up space?

Jim,
WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first.
;~)

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