Changing Drive Icon?

[daver_cl]

Maybe a silly question... is there a way to set the drive icon for an internal HD / partition? I have a SCSI2SD adapter with 2 drives—one of them shows the normal 'drive' icon, the other just displays as a folder, and I'm not sure how to change it.

 

[jessenator]

You should be able to find an icon you want (can be anything: application, folder, etc.) and on the Get Info window you can select it, copy it. Then select the destination and open it the same way, just paste it on instead. It should work.

 

[daver_cl]

ha ha ha, brilliant. thank you!

 

[olePigeon]

If you want it at a driver level, there're several SCSI utilities that will set the HDD icon when you format it (the basic B&W one you see if you were to delete the custom icon.)  Apple's driver makes it look like an HD20.

 

[jessenator]

If you want it at a driver level, there're several SCSI utilities that will set the HDD icon when you format it

I wish there was a way to overwrite it [at the base level] without having to format :/ I like Lido's assortment of icons, personally. It's been a few years (>20), but I want to dig into Anubis' utility and see what icons are in there.

Fun fact, if I use the default 'Project 2' label on Lido's Quadra 700 icon, it looks just as tanned/yellowed as my actual Q700

 

[cheesestraws]

I wish there was a way to overwrite it [at the base level] without having to format

Well, in theory you can replace the driver without reformatting (presumably, if the new one is the same size as the old one? I'm not sure entirely how it works).  Pretty sure HD SC Setup can update the Apple driver non-destructively, not sure if other tools have the same option.

 

[jessenator]

not sure if other tools have the same option.

Well, it's not necessarily the end of the world in my case, as it's my SCSI2SD and every time I set it up it's just copying over crap I have archived on optical or on vTools, but maybe I'll give it a try and see, since I've got something "expendable"

 

[Crutch]

Well, in theory you can replace the driver without reformatting (presumably, if the new one is the same size as the old one? I'm not sure entirely how it works).  Pretty sure HD SC Setup can update the Apple driver non-destructively, not sure if other tools have the same option.

SilverLining can definitely do this. 

 

[olePigeon]

I know FWB can update the driver, but it always uses the FWB icon.  Not sure if you can use ResEdit and change it or not.

 

[douglasgb]

The non-PE version of FWB has a menu command for changing the default drive icon.