Simply uncheck the Hard Disk option and the Desktop is HD icon-free. Should you care to, you can remove hard drive icons from the Sidebar as well. Just click the Sidebar tab in this same ...

The Computer desktop icon provides access to all of your computer's hard drive partitions, floppy drives, CD or DVD drives, and removable media drives. When you open this desktop icon you will be ...

The freeware program automatically adds drive icons to your desktop. It detects USB drives, fixed drives (i.e., your hard drives), CD/DVD drives, network drives, and even RAM disk drives.