Question mark in the upper left corner of finder

Hey,
I have just installed a bigger harddisk and more ram in my MacBook Pro (from last year).
Now there is a question mark in the upper left corner of finder. If I click on it, there is a message : the object doesn't exist, well my message is in danish, but I think this is a close translation. So what is happening?
Regards Stig

Control-click it and choose to remove it, or command-click it and drag it out of the title bar.
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