Help. Lost my hard disk icon

I was foolishly cleaning my key board with my computer on when I seemed to have done something to have made the icon for my PowerBook's hard disk icon to have disappeared. I've tried zapping the P-Ram, booting from an external hard disk and running Disk First Aid and running a search to see if the icon got accidently put into a folder somewhere. No luck. I am able to get into my files by going down to the dock and clicking on the two faces icon which brings up a window that shows my hard disk. But I can't seem to get the icon to appear on the desktop. Any ideas?

Try going to the Finder menu item "Finder" and select Preferences. Verify that in the General section the box is checked to Show Hard disks on the Desktop.
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