[samsontan]

Usually when we connect our USB drives, the finder shows an icon of it. Due to my impatience, i accidently dragged and drop it out of the sidebar and its gone. I tried connecting the drive again and this time only to find out that it doesn't appear in the sidebar anymore (it still appears on common desktop, that is how i normally eject it)

I tried dragging from the desktop to the sidebar of finder again but whenever i eject it, it doesn't disappear! What do i do to restore to its initial function?

[reader50]

Try this, it may work. Open the Finder Preferences -> Sidebar tab. Toggle the "Removable media" field.

[samsontan]

thanks.
it works

[rehoot]

This happens to me. If you toggle the option for removable media and you still get the error, go back to the same menu and show the computer icon, then when you click on that icon it should display the removable media HD icons. Mine appears to be random in the way that it shows USB memory sticks and disk images.