Your folders should still be there on the drive. They didn't go anywhere. Lightroom is a Database application, not a browser, so is only aware of what you put in it. A new catalog means there's nothing there at all, until you add something. It's like a new Word document. Look at the last Catalog in Open Recent and load it. It'll have the folders that you've imported into that catalog, but won't have the images from the new one.
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