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Jan 12, 2016 11:21 AM in response to aeyorkaby BDAqua,★HelpfulIt may have been accidentally renamed...
In Finder's Menu, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes". (no quotes)
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1 or 2 if there are no real files in them, and reboot.
If it does contain data...
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Jan 12, 2016 11:22 AM in response to BDAquaby aeyorka,Thank you so much!!!! I think that's exactly what happened!
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Jan 12, 2016 11:43 AM in response to aeyorkaby BDAqua,Not the renaming, but the spurious Volume is usually caused by loosing a connection while transferring files to/from an external drive... the Finder will continue with a local copy.