My USB is being a Jerk

I don't know if anyone can help with this, but my USB stick started playing up.

It was working fine, and when it was inserted, it was coming up with 'what would you like to use to open the files on this usb?' and then suddenly...

it wasn't. It opened the drive in a windows explorer tab, and there is NOTHING on it. No files at all. But when I go to the properties, it says that most of the disk space is in use.

I did a scan for errors just using the windows software and it says it put the recovered stuff in a folder called 'found' but there is no such folder on the drive.

I also tried searching for hidden files with no result.

I've got a bit of my book on there - not a whole lot, but a bit, and I'd really like to get it back.

Any suggestions for me?

I do have access to a mac, but it's running windows! yargle!

maybe, it's my work computer so it's probably best if I don't tinker with it, LOL.

how would one access the MAC portion anyway?

thanks anyway matey I'll see if I can get my paws on a mac elsewhere and if it helps any.

thanks guys. No luck, boo. I got hold of a mac and was able to open the drive and view the 'found' folders - but nothing in them, boooo!

I thought you might be interested to know I got my stuff back! I was able to run cmd on it, and from there, find out a program that could recover the files. In case anyone has a similar problem (unable to open RAW files) you could try this - it's free up to a certain number of folders:

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

thanks Nona, I didn't know that. I might do that next time I have an issue