Hard drives do not appear on desktop.

Ok never had this happen have been downloading programs and after rebooting my itunes fails to open and no hard drives appear on the desktop... the only thing appearing is the docking station.
Anyone know what to do....

Any help here... have rebooted, did disk repair, verified disk. Still no hard drives appearing even the Lacie external.

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