Hard disk on desktop

In Tiger I used to be able to have my hard drives/external drives, etc. not show up on my desktop but rather in the Finder window only. I can't for the life of me figure out how to recreate that setting in Leopard!
Regards.

Hi James
I don't have Leopard on my Mac at present but, the setting you are looking for is in Finder preferences in Tiger.
Apologies if you have tried this
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THERE ARE 2 DISKS THERE SO HERE THE INFO FOR BOTH..
Name :     ST940211 5AS Media
    Type :     Disk
    Partition Map Scheme :     GUID Partition Table
    Disk Identifier :     disk1
    Media Name :     ST940211 5AS Media
    Media Type :     Generic
    Connection Bus :     USB
    USB Serial Number :     D166237543D4
    Device Tree :     IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/EHC1@4,1
    Writable :     Yes
    Ejectable :     Yes
    Location :     External
    Total Capacity :     40.01 GB (40,007,760,384 Bytes)
    S.M.A.R.T. Status :     Not Supported
    Disk Number :     1
    Partition Number :     0
    Name :     disk1s2
    Type :     Volume
    Disk Identifier :     disk1s2
    Mount Point :     Not mounted
    File System :     Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
    Connection Bus :     USB
    Device Tree :     IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/EHC1@4,1
    Writable :     Yes
    Capacity :     39.66 GB (39,663,788,032 Bytes)
    Owners Enabled :     No
    Can Turn Owners Off :     Yes
    Can Be Formatted :     Yes
    Bootable :     Yes
    Supports Journaling :     Yes
    Journaled :     No
    Disk Number :     1
    Partition Number :     2

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My separate hard disk backup has old messages up to June 2012.
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
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