Why isn't there a hard drive icon on my desktop anymore?

I followed someone's advice to replace my mother's ownership of my macbook pro with mine, which worked, but now there's no hard drive icon, so where so I put the files that I saved on a thumb drive to put back on after the transition??

Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the General tab, and check the box for it.
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    Message was edited by: den.thed
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