FCP X will no longer recognise my external hard drives

I have been using an external (Gtech)hard drive with no problem - events & projects have loaded fine
Now I have added a second (Mybook) drive and backed up the iMac & G drive to that - the result?  FCPX no longer recognises those drives.  all the files are on both external drives, according to Finder.  Some forums suggest Time Machine is the culprit but (a) I did look at it and may have pressed the wrong buttons (b) don't know how to disable it if that is the problem.
So, I am up that creek and seem unable to paddle.
If there is a saviour out there then please put me out of my, total, misery!
Hugh

Tom,
You are kind to help.
I understood that th hard drives came pre-formatted so did nothing to them.
I have used the G drive for 2 months to run FCP X.
When I plugged in the Mybook 1 drive it seemed to work fine so I used Carbon Copy Cloner to back up:
- the iMac to MyBook1
- The G Drive to MyBook 1
As you can see below Event Manager is now not even recognising the drives at all.
I only used VLC to open one clip just to check that I hadn't lost all my work.
I do have a second, unused MyBook drive for future storage - can I use that in any way to move work?
Time Machine seems to keep popping up and some seem to think that this could be the problem.

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