My OS X drive Icon is gone again!!

Ok this is weird, it disappeared last week. The drive is there and is accessable by hitting Apple-N-then I see my user name and can Apple/arrow up to get to the top level but it's icon doesn't show up in the list)I tried everything with prefs(show hd on desktop etc), techtool, permissions, spoke to tech support. I finally gave up and did a complete reformat and install. -it was time, now 3 days after re-install it's gone again. I tried unplugging all of my fw drives and usb stuff too. also if I make a new user it doesn't fix the problem.
who know's how to fix this in terminal?
bummer.

Could be that your drive is becoming invisible. Why it is doing so no one knows. Try this:
Launch ScriptEditor and paste this into the script window:
tell application "System Events"
set visible of disk "NameofDisk" to true
end tell
tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 1
tell application "Finder" to launch
Replace NameofDisk with the actual name of your disk, hit the Compile icon to make sure the script didn't acquire any errors, and then hit run. This should set the visible attribute back to visible and quit and relaunch the Finder, all in one fell swoop. If the drive reappears then it is indeed going invisible. If it doesn't you have some other problem.
Francine

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