Why is hard drive icon in upper right corner?

hello. i have snow leopard on my macbook pro so i'm not very familiar with lion, however my 13 year old daughter has a macbook pro with lion and i'm the admin. i just noticed the macintosh hard drive icon in the upper right corner of her screen. is this normal in lion? if not, how can i get it out of there? thanks for any and all help.

Yes, that's the normal location for the disk icon(s). They start at the top with the startup drive. Other drives mount below it.
If you don't want drive icons to appear then open Finder preferences, click on the General icon in the toolbar. Uncheck the boxes for items you don't want displayed on the Desktop. Then click on the Sidebar icon in the toolbar and similarly check/uncheck items you want displayed in the sidebar.

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