Where did my hard drive go?

Did clean install of Lion on my laptop.  There is no hard drive on my desktop, or in my finder.  There is literally no disc to click on.  What is up with that?  I have lion 10.7.3.  Please help.
Also, thought Lion did away with 'stacks'.  That is on my computer too.

Go to the Finder preferences and select General and Desktop.  Check off the items you want to appear in your Desktop. Stacks are still optional, but you also have iOS look alike launcher.

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