eliminating disk icon from desktop

[pavelbure]

i recently changed the mac hard disk icon from appearing on the desk top. i bought a external hard drive recently and that puts a icon on my desktop also. i forget how to stop it from doing that, does anyone know how ?

 

[PlaceofDis]

Finder>Preferences uncheck "hard disks"

 

[pianoman]

on my MBP running 10.4.10, my external drive (connected via FW400) will show up even if "hard disks" is unchecked. to prevent external drives from showing up, i'd have to uncheck "connected servers".

 

[MacBoobsPro]

Finder>Preferences uncheck "hard disks"

You would think that wouldn't you?

To get external drives to bugger off you need to uncheck 'cds dvds and ipods'.

 

[pavelbure]

thanks for the help.