Final Cut Pro Chooses The Hard Drive?

Have been working for two days on a project. The media is all on an external drive named LACIE VIDEO MEDIA. Superduper did a backup to another external drive called Verbatim 2 this morning. When I started up Final Cut Pro X this afternoon the event browser now thinks all my media is on the VERBATIM 2 drive and claims there are no events at all on the LACIE VIDEO MEDIA drive. All the original files are still there on the Lacie drive!!! Final Cut Pro X cannot see them? How do I reconnect them?

I was experimenting with external drives and found that FCPX would only see HFS+ formatted drives, not fat32, or ntfs.
I had copied the Final Cut Projects and Final Cut Events folder from Movies to the root of the external drive using finder, started FCPX and it showed only the projects/events on the external drive.
I removed those the folders from the external drive, and then used FCPX to duplicate the projects and events from the internal drive to the external drive and both showed up in the browser
Strange.
So, only use FCPX to move around your projects/event.

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Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutPro
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Code Type: PPC (Translated)
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x80238dcf pthread_kill + 95
2 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb80bfb30 0xb8000000 + 785200
3 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb80c0037 0xb8000000 + 786487
4 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb80dd8e8 0xb8000000 + 907496
5 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb8145397 spinlockwrapper + 1791
6 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb801ceb7 0xb8000000 + 118455
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2 com.apple.FinalCutPro 0xb819440f CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 206231
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4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x801706e2 thread_start + 34
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edi: 0xb8211640 esi: 0x00000005 ebp: 0xb7fff9d8 esp: 0xb7fff9ac
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x80239522 cs: 0x00000007
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x80239518
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