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From: hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung)
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Subject: Re: Changing HD icon
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Date: 4 Apr 91 04:03:20 GMT
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In article <40397@netnews.upenn.edu> gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) writes:
...
>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.
...

  The HD icon is stored in HD installer's resource file. Just use
ResEdit to edit it, and reformat the HD... although that means you
must make a backup from your HD.

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