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From: gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser)
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Subject: Re: Changing HD icon
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Date: 3 Apr 91 21:55:39 GMT
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In article <1991Apr02.191258.26623@ariel.unm.edu> cdelay@cie.uoregon.edu (Christian De Lay) writes:
>Is there a way (aside from the "Facade" init) to alter the icon of a hard
>disk?  I'd like to edit the icons for my hard drives, but can't figure out
>how to do it...  Suggestions?


	Don't like Facade, eh?  Try IconMaster cdev.  No go?  Here's
my theoretical solution.  Don't know why it shouldn't work, but I've
never been brave enough to try it.  Here goes:

They say the icon is stored on the HD's boot blocks (notice it's not in the
finder, desktop, or system...)so,  get a visual copy of the icon you have
now via a screen dump, etc.  Hex dump it with McSink, etc.
Use this hex code as a search pattern in a sector editor (norton, SUM, etc)
and replace the found hex with a hex dump from the icon you'd prefer to have.

	I'm serious about this.  If anyone has the guts to sector-edit
his/her boot blocks, I'd like to know if this method works.  I miss
the sector-editing days of yore with my Apple //e.

				Nate Gasser
				gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

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