External hard drive is hidden and I can't get to it

I got the bright idea to hide the icon of my Lacie firewire hard drive from my wife's account. It disappeared from my desk top as well and now I can't get to the information on the hard drive. System profiler says it is attached to the firewire port. Disk utility recognizes that it is there and it passes the tests. I even was able to update the firmware on the hard drive but it remains hidden.
This happened some months ago and I believe I was using "Get Info" and chose something that said "Hide Icon". The hard drive is full of iMovies of my kids and I don't have backups. Could anyone help me?

Thank you everyone! I did get the external hard drive to appear again on my desk top. It was actually through the "Go to Folder" and typing /Volumes/ and choosing the external hard drive and then "Get Info" that I was able to change the permissions on that hard drive. Thanks again.

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