Lost HD image in Finder window

I've lost a the image of my Hard Drive in the upper left hand corner of my finder window and don't know how to get it back. I must have inadvertantly made it go poof one day. It does show up when I open Disk Utility, but I can't figure out what to do from there, if anything, and I'm afraid to do anything else from fear of erasing or restoring something I don't want to.
What's the trick? TIA
Michael

Hi Micheal,
Try this...
Finder>Preferences>Sidebar, clck on Hard Disks.
If that fails, simply drag the Desktop icon for the HD to the sidebar.
PS. It's easy to drag those icons off to the left and have them go poof!

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