How to change the name of External Hard Disk?

I am new to Mac so if this is really easy and I am being completely lame here please excuse me.
I have an External Hard Drive that is being used by Time Machine. I don't want to see it on the desktop so I was going to change the name so it had a '.' character in front to hide it, as suggested on another thread because the hiding of external disks in the finder preferences doesn't quite work right.
How can I change the name? Do I have to reformat it? I don't want to do that because I have been using it for several weeks now so was hoping there is another way.
Thanks for the help.

AlfaGuido,
If I understand your question correctly, you erroneously placed a "." in the name field of your external hard drive to make it invisible. Now that the hard drive is invisible and therefore unusable, you want to remove the "." that you placed in front of the name of your external hard drive.
TinkerTool will allow you to see the drive and remove the "." from the name field using the TinkerTool>Finder>Finder options: [✓] Show hidden and system files.
;~)

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