Dragged Hard Drive icon in Launchpad. Help please?

So recently i just bought a 13" macbook pro, as a first time macbook owner i was playing around with the icons, i accidentaly dragged the Macintosh HD icon into the launchpad. Now i have like 4 pages on the launchpad full of stupid icons which im guessing is the make up of the Macintosh Hard drive...
How do i get rid of this? I tried googling the answers but came up with nothing.
thanks

See if this helps?
http://haiteq.com/2011/07/07/quick-tip-force-os-x-lion-to-reload-the-launchpads- contents/
Regards,
Colin R.

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