My hard drive renamed itself ??

I booted my macbook up this morning and instead of saying 'macbook HD' all it has is a ']' symbol. I looked and it says it was last modified a couple months ago when I put a new hard drive in. So it doesn't say it was just modified. I'm so confused. My camera was also on when I booted it up. I had to completely turn it off to get it to turn off. Rebooting it didn't turn it off.
Is something wrong with my computer? Why did it rename itself?

Try resetting your SMC, trash your Finder preferences and reboot.
HD > User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.finder.plist
Resetting your SMC.
Resetting the System Management Controller >>
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