unwanted desktop "icon"?

While cleaning my macbook a strange icon øπ ao appeared under the icon for my hard drive on the desktop. It is black letters inside a white "almost oval" shape.
I can't get rid of it! I have tried dragging it to the trash, dragging it into the hard drive icon, deleteing etc. It is attached to the hard drive icon - They move together when dragging. I think it has something to do with disk utility and volume. I know about finder and about how to hide the hard drive icon in preferences, but I want to keep the hard drive icon on the desk top and put back the dastardly øπ ao wherever it belongs. Can anyone help?

Hard to say since I can't see it (a screenshot would be nice, BTW), but I'm going to guess that while cleaning your machine, you accidentally renamed the Macintosh HD and added a special character that appears to be an icon.

Try single-clicking the hard drive icon to select it. Then, single-click the name under the icon. Then, hit the delete key. If it went away, that's your issue. If not, hit the esc key to restore it.

øπ ao icon under hard drive icon on desktop

I tried single clicking on the hard drive and selected it. Then I single clicked on the øπ ao symbol/icon under it.
This turned the white ovalish shape contining the øπ*ao into a a small light blue rectangle still containing the symbol/letters øπ ao.
I clicked on delete and then this shape became a very small verticle white rectangle with a small black verticle slit in the center.
This is the darndest thing! What else can we try?

re: øπ ao icon on the desktop

Name : øπªº
Type : Volume

Disk Identifier : disk0s2
Mount Point : /
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/SATA@B/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:2
Writable : Yes
Universal Unique Identifier : 63012EC1-11FB-3FE1-BAF9-A82B4A2EA51D
Capacity : 111.5 GB (119,690,149,888 Bytes)
Free Space : 90.9 GB (97,619,247,104 Bytes)
Used : 20.6 GB (22,070,902,784 Bytes)
Number of Files : 575,458
Number of Folders : 156,247
Owners Enabled : Yes
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Repair Permissions : Yes
Can Be Verified : Yes
Can Be Repaired : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 2

This is the information I found under disk utilities on my computer. Can someone help me get rid of this thing? Can I remove it? Do I need it? What is it?

You just renamed your hard drive as I thought.

From your desktop, do this:

1. Single-click your hard disk to select it.
2. Press Command + I (this will launch the 'Get Info') window, which should look like this:



3. Type: Macintosh HD into the field indicated and close the window.

øπ ao icon under hard drive icon on desktop

Thank you so very much cwa107! That did it! I really appreciate your help!!