Everything has disappeared off of my desktop?

I started up my computer and everything has disappeared off of my desktop included my icon for my hard drive. I have performed a search and can see that they are somewhere, but not able to tell where or retrieve them. Even in these searches no HD to speak of. HELP!

Hi grandmabone and welcome to Apple Discussions!
If you go to the Finder menu and select *Finder Preferences* then select the General tab, which items are checked under *Show these items on the desktop*? If you make sure that *Hard disks* is checked, does that help?
Best of luck.

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