External HD has disappeared from Finder

I believe I created this problem. When I plugged my External HD in last week I accidentally dragged the Ext HD onto the desktop. It then disappeared from view in finder and there is no shortcut on the desktop or anywhere that I can find on my computer.

It does however show up in disk utility and when I unplug it, I receive the "inproperly ejected disk" message.

Does anyone know how I can make the Ext HD accessible again?

Solution 1:

You have only removed the visibility on your desktop.

• Go to Finder (The smiling blue man in your Dock in the lower part of your screen)
• Then press Command, or go to Finder (menubar) and choose 'Preferences'
• Now choose 'General'
• Tick the checkbox that says "External Drives"

You can do the same for the Finder Sidebar

• Within the Finder Preferences choose 'Sidebar'
• Tick the checkboxes in the Devises section of the devices you want to see

Somewhere within the evolution of Finder they added this option, I am almost certain is wasn't added yet in OS 6 ;) With this feature they created a cleaner desktop and some confusion, I must admit.

Another easy way to check which drive is mounted is to open "Disk Utility" located in Applications/Utilities/

Good luck with your drive.