WD Hard drive not linking files to final cut

Hello,
First time to the forum. I need help with this. I was adding a sound track to my completed feature length film when the worst nightmare in my life happened. I lost all of my footage during a shut down of Western Digital during editing. (not completely). For no reason the hard drive just turned itself off and I recieved an error message that "device removal error, the hard drive was not properly shut down and so on"........ didn't think of it much so I simply turned it back on and continued what I was doing. After saving my work and shutting down for a few hours I went back at it only to discover that my original timeline was not saved and I got a new user interface. I saw the clips I transferred in but one folder was completely gone along with my audio and stills. When I launced Final Cut I got this big fat message that there was media offline do I wish to reconnect. Everything was there but the sequence I was last working on. Frustrated I simply powered down and then re launced only to get more of a mess. After spending hours and trying to figure out what went wrong, I simply re-loaded final cut. The files are there on my hard drive but they are not linking. Is there a way to re-link these files? Is there some corrupt media? or is the hard drive simply no good. I only had it for a few months. I did a disk utility repair check and it says "Disk is working properly" This drive was bought to replace a Maxtor that crased on me as well. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Final Cut ROCKS!
Thanks
TAN

Welcome to the forums. If I'm understanding you, your project file is not gone, but reverted back to a version from a while back. For your project file not being all there, do a search and make sure that there aren't any autosave files anywhere. As for your media files being offline, if they are on your WD drive, just reconnect them in the browser. Check the FCP Manual: IV-68
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