Imac desktop icon question

ok 1st off let me say good job to apple i finally got my wife's 27in i7 and was worried about the lower left glass cracked issue. so the box gets here and all i can hear is something rolling around in the box .. im like awwww shhhhhh .... but found out it was only the bag of beads that they put in box had torn open .... but all is well installed extra ram ...
but
either ive gotten a brain freeze but the icon for the HD is not on the desktop - can anyone tell me how to get it back on there?
ive never seen a mac that had no HD icons on the desktop .. is this something new they are doing now .. but any help would be appreciated
ps.
i wonder if by ordering the office mac may have helped avoid the glass issue since they would of had to open box to install.

Hi Ron
Open Finder or click anywhere on the Desktop, now then go up on the menu bar and open *Finder > Finder Preferences* and check to be sure all the boxes for *Show these items on the desktop:* are checked. Then before you leave the *Finder Preferences* jump over to the Sidebar tab and make sure that the desired boxes are checked there as well.
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