[gnome-love] I can't see the hard disks!

[Daniel <danbar onvol net>]

On my desktop there is the icon of My Computer.  I press it in order to see all the files.  Under Home folder I can see the files that I wrote or made.  But when I press File System I can't see the hard disks!  (I partitioned the other hard disk which has windows XP and I tried to see it in Linux Ubuntu too).  

Now it seems that there is a sign of a lock next to the File system.  I can't unlock it.  If I press right click, I find properties.  If I look for permissions it tells me that I'm not the owner!!! What can I do to unlock it and see the hard disks.  I know that they are ok with ubuntu because I've seen them from the terminal window but I need  to see them from the desktop too in order to put some common files for both windows and ubuntu in this newly created partition. 

I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 and gnome 2.16.1  I use dual boot.  

Thanks for your patience!