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change drive icon

fimbulvetr

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Ugh.I'm having a major brain fart. At some point in the last year, I changed the hard drive icon on my SE/30 (System 7.1, update 3) and now I can't remember how I did it. It may have been when I set up my SCSI2SD. Anyone know how to do this? I farted around on the thing for well over an hour last night, and no luck. 

Thanks.

 

Cera

Active member
there' s  some way to do this in system 6? some trick or third part app? i'd like to change hd icon like I do in system 7

 

Apache Thunder

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I could be wrong, But I don't recall System 6 supporting custom folder/file/drive icons.

 
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eR1c

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when you format your drive w/ Lido you also get a nice selection of icons to select from.  I am using a very nicely rendered Mac Classic icon and Mac SE icon on both of my respective machines.  

 

olePigeon

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I have a custom version of Lido where I made a spiffy IIci specific icon for my HDD.  I like have a permanent icon for it. :)

 

slomacuser

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https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23490-scsi-hard-disk-icon-hack/

I found control panel for system software below 7 which can change your HD drive icon, it is called IconMaster.

Check the link below. I also included icons for System 7 which can be just copy/pasted on HD icon or folder.

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 HDICONS.img.zip

 

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Cera

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thank U very much for the info! tried under 6.0.7 in minivmac it doesn't work after restart :(

i'm gonna try on real SE 6.0.7 to see if it works

 

Cera

Active member
when you format your drive w/ Lido you also get a nice selection of icons to select from.  I am using a very nicely rendered Mac Classic icon and Mac SE icon on both of my respective machines.  
i know it's a good way but i don' t want to erase disk and reinstall. if u only change icon with lido under 6x without formatting the changes can't bee seen. can be seen only under 7x

 

Cera

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It's all built in the download that slomacuser posted. you can only interact in the control panel and this will change only the boot disk icon. it' s simpler to use it than explain it. just put the icon master control panel in system folder, reboot and than try it  :) .to modify default icons you've got to modify pixel per pixel and save it. there's a screen from minivmac

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Elfen

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Anything on System 7 and after, you can use "Get Info" on the file/drive  and cut/paste the icon from there.

 
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