My hard drive icon does not show.

hi everyone, although my new 160Gb hard drive installed in 12' Ali 1.5GHz was working fine after updating it to lepard, I don't know what I did that made the hard drive icon to disappear. All the applications are showing in the side menu and the machine is fine, but the hard drive folder "macintosh HD" is nowhere to be found. Can anyone help me before I instal a new system. Many thanks

Hi camaway2,
Open the Finder. Click on Preferences>General
Under "Show these items on the Desktop" click on "hard disks."
Let us know if this helps!
Bob
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