Deleted My Hard Drive - Help!

I dragged my Hard Drive from the Devices menu to the desktop, thinking it would make a shortcut or copy (I'm new to Macs), and it deleted it! How do I get it back? (I'm too afraid to reboot without an okay from a more experienced user...)

Hi Hallie, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Click on the desktop. Click on Finder menu. Click on Preferences. Click on Sidebar. Under Devices, click the checkbox next to Hard disks.

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