How to see my hard drive icon lion 10.7.4 HELP!!

I am having no luck getting my hard drive icon to appear on my macbook pro retina running Lion 10.7.4. Any help?? the preferences>general>select hard drives is not an option on this version of Lion.
My main problem is that I can't access my audio plug-ins through my Library. I have unhid the Library folder, however accessing it through my user folder has never worked to show me my audio plug-ins. the only way i could ever see them on my old machine was macintosh hd> library> audio> plug-ins. but now the mac hd icon is nowhere.
HELP!!!!

Activate the Finder, select Preferences from the Finder's Finder menu. Glick on the General icon in the toolbar. Check the boxes of what you wish displayed on the Desktop. Then click on the Sidebar icon in the toolbar where you choose what you wish displayed.

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