Boot Camp - Question after install of Vista

Hi, first time mac user here, just had a quick question.
I installed Vista sucessfully, so now when i boot into Leopard i noticed that i have 2 drive icons on the screen, the OSX and the Vista ( use to be called untitled but i changed the name)
My thing is can i remove the Vista icon drive or will that harm the partition? why am i seeing that on the desktop now if thats a seperate partition ?
Why would i need that on the destop of OSX ?
Thanks for the help and explanation

No harm - you aren't the first that wanted their desktop to be 'clean' of drives. You can put an alias of your Mac OS volume if you want.
Seeing your are new - and even if you weren't but wanted to get more out of it, strongly recommend at least one book to get started "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual"
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/02/27/1551206.shtml
http://missingmanuals.com/
Switching to Mac:
http://lifehacker.com/software/mac/hack-attack-a-guide-for-switching-to-a-mac-22 4674.php
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303637
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
If you have MacBook (or not) might want to put some detgails in your profile, helps to know OS, Mac, etc. Getting started with Mac portable:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303638

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