Bootcamp drive icon (Windows 10), missing from macbook pro desktop.

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I'm running Yosemite 10.10.5 and I've had bootcamp running Windows 10 on my computer for a while now until today when the bootcamp drive icon disappeared from my macbook pro desktop, even though it boots up normally into windows after a restart or shutdown. I've tried to follow several guides on how to get the drive icon back and I've even reinstalled the mac os x system but all to no avail.
 

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Go to Finder > Preferences > General. Make sure the external disk option is selected for "Show these items on the desktop."
 
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Go to Finder > Preferences > General. Make sure the external disk option is selected for "Show these items on the desktop."

I've tried that but I still can't see the icon. I also forgot to mention in my last post that the bootcamp drive is also not shown under Devices on the left. I tried to hide and show but still no joy.
 

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How about your Macintosh HD icon, is that visible on your desktop? Also, run Disk Utility to see if the Windows 10 partition shows up (you don't need to boot to recovery).
 
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How about your Macintosh HD icon, is that visible on your desktop? Also, run Disk Utility to see if the Windows 10 partition shows up (you don't need to boot to recovery).

Yes my mac icon is visible and working and in Disk Utility the Windws 10 partition is visible but greyed out.
 

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From Disk Utility, try mounting your Windows 10 partition. If you're successful, the grey out should be removed and it will show up again on your desktop.
 
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From Disk Utility, try mounting your Windows 10 partition. If you're successful, the grey out should be removed and it will show up again on your desktop.

I've tried the Disk Utility but I couldn't mount the disk, and got the message 'The disk “BOOTCAMP” could not be mounted.Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting'. I've tried First Aid, with Repair Disk but got the same results. (The Repair Disk Permissions are also greyed out).
 
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Evidently the drive is not damaged nor the boot sector since you say you can boot to Windows 10. However, something is not right if Disk Utility won't allow it to be mounted. Unless you're in the mood for erasing the drive and reinstalling everything, I would leave well enough alone for now. Perhaps later on you can reinstall Windows 10 in a virtual machine and run it that way. Much less headaches.
 

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Are you comfortable using the command line? You can mount it from there. If you are, execute the following:
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diskutil list
This will list your disks. On the left, you'll see a list of "/dev/diskX" labels (where X is a number). One of those will be your BootCamp disks. If you can determine which one is the BC disk, execute the following:
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diskutil mountDisk /dev/diskX
(Where X is the disk number). If you're not comfortable with this, we can take you through it with more detail.
 
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Are you comfortable using the command line? You can mount it from there. If you are, execute the following:
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diskutil list
This will list your disks. On the left, you'll see a list of "/dev/diskX" labels (where X is a number). One of those will be your BootCamp disks. If you can determine which one is the BC disk, execute the following:
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diskutil mountDisk /dev/diskX
(Where X is the disk number). If you're not comfortable with this, we can take you through it with more detail.
I'm semi-comfortable using the command line and would like more detail should this ever happen again. However I have just clean formatted the entire drive and I will reinstall Bootcamp/Windows 10 as new again.
 
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Evidently the drive is not damaged nor the boot sector since you say you can boot to Windows 10. However, something is not right if Disk Utility won't allow it to be mounted. Unless you're in the mood for erasing the drive and reinstalling everything, I would leave well enough alone for now. Perhaps later on you can reinstall Windows 10 in a virtual machine and run it that way. Much less headaches.
I have just clean formatted the entire drive and will install Bootcamp/Windows 10 as new again.
 

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