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[bonaventure]

I have missing hard drive icon in windows 7. What is the cause of missing icon on windows 7? How to solve this issue?

[baldwin]

The cause of the missing icons can be anything for example some registry entries became corrupted. Luckily, you do not have to use Regedit to solve this issue.
Here is a fix
Start-> Control Panel,->"Change Desktop Icons" on the left side of the screen. Then you can select the icons you want back on the desktop by turning on the option next to the name. You can also choose restore default to restore all icons, including the hard drive icon to their normal icon.

[ian]

Another issue might be that some windows dependencies or dlls are damaged. If that's the case it becomes very tough to solve the issue manually. It is good to have a clean desk before trying to fix something. Therefore clean all your cookies, temporary windows files and error logs.