Reconnect Media: Hard drive offline?

I started up FCP this morning and a notification popped up saying two or media files were offline. When I clicked reconnect, under my files to be reconnected it said "Macintosh HD." Does this mean it can't read my hard drive? How can I fix this?

Do you know where the files are located?
Just navigate to the folder that contains them, in the reconnect dialog, using 'Locate'...or click on 'Search' and FCP should find them.
K

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