My internal drive shows 500GB thats not there

My internal hard drive show 500GB of content thats not there. I am using 10.9.1. In "about this mac" it shows up as part of 1.03 TB.

Well it did NOT work. Here is a screen capture as FCPX loads showing the drive while it loads. Then when it is loaded, NO drive showing up in the Event Library ( I have turned off the external drive).
ANY ideas . . . . Anybody . . . . APPLE?

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If you want to use match when your hard drive is not attached, I suggest that you create a new blank library then turn on match, you will see all your music in cloud. Hold option key whilst launching iTunes and select create new library. You can switch between libraries as required.
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Good day to you all. It's my first post here and I come to you in desperation.
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kaloyster,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
From what you are describing it looks like your HD has either fully failed or is failing. I would suggest taking it in for service. The good news is you have been using Time Machine so you have a backup of most of your system. As you may know TM does not backup any MS Windows data.
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Philippines 1-800-1441-0234 www.apple.com/asia/support/
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Director wrote:
Is it possible to just unmount my internal drives from my workhorse Mac Pro 2.66 Dual Core Intel Xeon tower and mount in my new 8C Xeon 2X2.4g 64bit tower?
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