2 of the same external drives showing up in Lr

Yesterday, I mistakenly imported some trash files (html) into Lr. This caused Lr to crash whenever the image came up in the viewer on my screen. Weird, but luckily I was able to get the files out of Lr, and everything seems all better.
However, during the crash, I pulled out the external drive everything is stored without unmounting it. I know know that mac and programs really don't like that.
Now post crash, in my left nav, Lr is showing the same external drive twice. And now when I import, it goes to the second one.
What did I do and is it fixable?
Thank you very much. Image attached,
35,000 images so far, and Lr is very quick. Backing up my backups...
Lr 2.1
imac 3.06 Core 2 Duo 4 GB SDRAM
35,000 images so far in 1 catalog
Canon Gear

You described what you did!
You do have but one drive, and LR is seeing double, so to speak?
I suspect, though, that it's using different folders inside the "doubled version". Use LR to consolidate all images inside of one, then delete the 'other', after double checking there are no images inside of 'it'. This all after a complete backup.

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