New MacMini Server

I've just taken delivery of a new MacMini Server - which has proved to be a trifle difficult in understanding. Firstl I have two drives - one is labeled Macintosh HD2 and the other Macintosh Server - although I cannot see it at the moment.
Starting up from new wasn't as straightforward as I thought and with a usb Mac Time-Capsule ready to load, it didn't exactly do what it should have.
I eventually got it to load from the Time Capsule onto Macintosh HD2 so all file former files from the MacBookPro have loded accordingly into the HD2 drive. So now I have the dock showing some of my applications except for the Macintosh HD logo that I am familiar with and resident on my desktop. The question is how can I get this HD icon to appear on the desktop?
I actually don't require the server aspect at the moment, but I might in due course.
Another puzzle is that in my User Folder, the next level shows many of my secondary folders but several of them, such as Dropbox, Music, My Images, pictures, Public etc have a red (no entry) circle and clicking on them says I don't have permissions to enter the folder.
I would welcome some input please as I fear that the setup hasn't gone exactly as I would have hoped.
Thank you

Thank you Dave. One assumes therefore that if I've installed all my programmes on the wrong drive, I should theoretically be able to move them over to the Server HD.
I really don't know about this and Apple don't give any specific instructions as to the contrary.

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