I was exploring the hard drive, and ended up with an icon picture of the drive on my desktop. How do I get rid of it?

I was exploring my new iMac, trying to see similarities and differences between it an "ibm" based computers, and somehow I ended up with an icon of my hard drive on my monitor. I tried dragging the icon to the trash can, but it can't seem to be deleted. How do I get rid of the new icon?

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To get rid of hard disk icons on the Desktop, open Finder menu > Preferences > General, and untick "Hard disks" and/or "External disks", depending if it's your internal hard disk or an external disk

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