Solved Change External Hard Drive Icons

[JarrodJS]

Hey guys, I recently recieved a new External hard drive. The other day, I changed the icon on it, no problem. I've done it millions of times. Then last night, I formatted the drive because I wanted to get rid of this annoying virtual drive that would also come up when I plugged it in. So, I formatted it and now it seems I can not change the icon. I do all the autorun.inf etc. Here's a screenshot

http://jarrodjs.rumkin.com/comp.jpg

Also you can see my other drive icons are gone. Ive reset the icon db before and no other icons have this problem but im not sure if I need to reset it again to get the rest back.

But my external hd is top priorite.
Thanks!!!

 

[Brink]

Hello Jarrod, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might see if deleting the desktop.ini files and seeing if one of the methods in the tutorial below will allow you to change the drive icon to what you want instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/111388-drive-icon-change.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Hello JarrodJS,
I don't know if this will help, here is a set of vista Icons.

View attachment Vista Icons.zip

Good luck.

 

[JarrodJS]

Thanks, guys! I used a little bit of both of your posts to help me!

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Jarrod. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.

 

[stoneys-nutz]

Good work, glad you got it sorted.