Flash drive stopped showing up in Finder sidebar

My flash drive still works perfectly, except for the fact that it stopped showing up on the sidebar under DEVICES. It's a little pesky having to look it up in my desktop when I should be able to find it quickly in every FINDER window.

Go to Finder?Preferences>Sidebar and make sure that External disks is checked.

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