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From: Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque)
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Subject: Re: how do you change the hard disk icon?
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Date: 1 Apr 91 01:02:41 GMT
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You cannot change the hard disk icon with ResEdit, and using a bit
editor to find and change the icon directly on your hard disk is
inviting data loss and destruction.

There are two options: There is an init called Facade available as
Shareware. You create or select an icon in ResEdit, add it to Facade
and rename it so that the icon's resource name is the name of your hard
drive. Reboot and viola your hard disk has a new icon. Drawbacks: if
you change your hard disk name or if you want to change the icon, you
have to go back and use ResEdit again, kinda messy.

There is also an INIT/CDEV combo called IconMaster which allows you to
assign a new icon to your hard drive. Simply drop it in your system
folder, access it from Control Panel, select an icon or create your own
with the editor and reboot. Drawbacks: you can only change your boot
drive icon, while Facade can affect boot drive, any SCSI hard drive,
remote volumes, even floppies ( I used to set untitled disks to display
a big question mark to remind me to name them)

Hope this helped,
Chuck

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