I accidentally deleted my hard drive icon from finder.

I don't know how I did it exactly. I was clicking around there and then I saw it go 'poof' and disappear. I don't think I did any harm but how can I get it back in finder?

Drag it from the desktop to the Finder's sidebar.
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PROBLEM SOLVED
ANSWER The exact same thing happened to me today. I accidently deleted my Photo app (with over a 1000 photos in it) but I could still access it by pressing the home button twice. This is because it was with the background running apps (when you press the home button twice it shows all the apps running in the background) but it would not let me drag it to the Home screen.
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