Final Cut Express not recognizing firewire

I recently deleted my hardrive on my '04 iBook, and reinstalled all my software. I have Final Cut Express version 2.0.2, and upon reinstalling it, and firing it up for the first time, with my XL2 on and attached via firewire, the "External A/V" window pops up, and says "Unable to locate the following devices..." referring to the firewire connection. Now that always pops up when nothing's plugged in that's turned on, but this is the first time it's ever done this when my camera is plugged in and on. I went through every NTSC firewire setting on the "Easy Setup" window, but nothing changed. iMovie reads my XL2 just fine with the same firewire cable. This problem did not occur before I clean out my hardrive, and reinstalled everything. But prior to reinstallation my "capture" function was freezing up after 5 minutes, and said my "startup disc" was full. Any ideas on what the current problems is?

I'm experiencing the same problem. I have a macbook pro 2.4 GHz, using a Canon HV20. When I enter FCE is prompts me saying "Unable to locate following device: Apple Firewire NTSC." However using imovie, everything works fine, I'm able to capture images simply by turning on my camera.
Not sure if its a problem with my FCE, because I've tried to edit in FCE using video from imovie and it gives me an error message constantly.
any ideas?

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Do you mean move my folder of final cut express that I moved onto my HDD?
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