My Macintosh HD Icon has disappeared in the Finder window

I cannot find my Macintosh HD Icon. When I do a search in spotlight, it locates it in the computer Icon folder but when I go to that folder, it isn't there. Does anyone have the same problem?

Sounds like you have the invisible problem. Go to the thread roam mentions and scroll down past the real technical post of using the Terminal to fix it, you'll see a later post about using an Applescript to fix the problem. This may be easier for you to do. You'll want the script for fixing the drive problem, I also added a later post with a fix for invisible folders.
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