How do you open a hard drive in Lion

I have a Mac Book Pro. Since the Lion upgrade I can no longer open a hard drive window on the desktop. When I double click on the HD icon nothing happens, or at least that is what it seems. However when I do the 3 finger swipe to go from one desktop to another, then I see that opened HD window showing up and I am transissioning from one desktop to another, then when then next desktop is active, the HD open window disappears. This is a major bug because I can not access a file on the internal or any connected HD on the MB pro. Anyone else have this issue? I do not have the issue on an older 27" iMac, but of course I do not have a trackpad on that machine. So I feel this is a "Swipe to next desktop" issue. How do you shut the 3 finger swipe off?

Sounds like you have a Finder window lost in the "Space between Spaces"
sometimes dialog windows do this to me, its annoying as all get out.
Two finger click on your Finder icon and go to Options and pin your Finder to "This Desktop"
That should force the open window of finder into the space you need, then you can close it and undo that setting.
Or you can pin finder to all desktops and it will be persistant to any space you are in, but that can get annoying.
EE

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