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I have a desktop iMac in Snow Leopard, and in the upper right corner, there's always an icon of the Hard Disk. I click on the Hard Disk icon and it opens the Finder.
However, I just purchased a MacBook Pro, and there are no icons immediately visible on startup. However, if I double-click on the Finder icon on the desktop, the Hard Disk icon will appear.
Why do the two computers act differently on startup?

In the Finder, go to Finder -> Preferences, click the General icon and make sure "Hard disks" is checked.
Also, just some terminology clarification:
1) Clicking the hard disk icon doesn't open the Finder, it opens a window in the Finder. The Finder is always open.
2) There's no Finder icon on the desktop, you must be thinking of the Finder icon on the Dock.
3) When you single-click the Finder icon on the Dock, a window will appear, which probably shows your hard drive in the sidebar. This isn't causing the hard drive icon to appear on the desktop, correct?

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