Finder Sidebar Hard Drives Duplicated

Both my internal hard drives (and their partitions)are duplicated in the side bar of the finder i have not added them they have just suddenly appeared .I also thought i saw a quicklook icon in the finder toolbar when i first upgraded and it isnt there any more ?? any ideas

I too have this problem and it hasn't gone away. I have 6 HD's named BM 1 - 6 and I'm getting duplicates of some drives and some not showing up at all. I have searched all forums and sites I know of and no one has a fix that I could find. If anyone has a clue as to why this would be happening I would appreciate it. I should note that I don't have any problems accessing the drives, just that the drive names show up incorrectly in finder. In disk util it shows all the drives and there names as does other pop up windows that allow you to search for a path.

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