Can't get rid of drive on desktop

Ever since I installed Windows 7 using Boot Camp I have had a drive icon on my Snow Leopard desktop, which contains 2 files - AutoUnattend.xml and BootCamp3.1.64-bit.exe - and a 'drivers' folder. Should it be there? I have tried ejecting and moving to Trash, at which point it vanishes, but it's back again on boot-up. The Windows 7 installation instructions did not lead me to expect that I would have a permanent desktop icon. Grateful for any advice.

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
no, these files should not be permanent.
Do a 'Get Information' (right-click on them or Command-I key-combo) on these files/folder, are they residing on your Windows 7 partition ?
If so, thn OSX can not delete them, since OSX can not write/delete on NTFS Windows partitions.
Try finding and deleting them while in Windows 7
Hope it helps
Stefan

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