Reconnect  media on my main drive problems

why does my media not reconnect on my main drive? I reconnected from withing fcp 7 and it says it is offline, please help

Lots of ways that can happen.
Start with FCP Systems Settings. Are the scratch disk settings what you expect them to be? And what do you mean by your "main drive"…are you referring to your boot drive?
Russ

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