External disk display on the sidebar

I have several external disks. All appeared in the finder and also in the desktop. Until yesterday, one of the disk just disappear. I can still see it and open it up if I am in the Disk Utility screen. However, when I open it up from the Disk Utility screen, that disk is greyed out. I can still access all the files.
How can I get it to appear back on the desktop and finder window, without the trouble of having to open up the Disk Utility?
Thank you for your help.

Sometimes external drives do disappear from the sidebar in Finder. Here's the technique I use:
In your Finder window toolbar (at top), look for an icon that has 4 horizontal lines, each line indented further than the line above it. It is called the Path button. If it's there, skip to #3. (You can see a picture of it, and a writeup on inserting it here: http://lifehacker.com/245127/mac-tip--add-the-path-button-to-finders-toolbar )
If that button is not there, right-click on the toolbar & select "Customize Toolbar…", find that icon, and drag it up into your button bar at the top of the Finder window. Click Done to close the Customize Toolbar panel.
Now click & hold on that button. If there is only one choice "All My Files" then you are in All-My-Files mode, a feature of Mountain Lion. If there is a list of folders & drive, skip to #5.
Get out of All-My-Files mode by clicking anything else in the left sidebar (Documents, Desktop, anything except All My Files).
Click & hold on the Path button & you'll see a path, folder by folder, up to your boot drive. The next-to-last choice will be your boot drive (usually MacintoshHD, unless you renamed it), and the last choice will be the name of your computer.
Select your computer name (last choice in menu).
Now, the Finder window will show a list of the drives connected to your computer, and your missing drive should appear there.
You can choose your drive & navigate into it, but you should also drag that drive into the left sidebar so it adds as a Favorite. It should stay there, but if it ever goes missing again, you can use the PathBack button to get back to it.

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