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From: ayaari@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alon Yaari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Changing HD icon
Message-ID: <27fce7ca.a6c@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:10:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr02.191258.26623@ariel.unm.edu> <40397@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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>	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.



I too, miss the old secotr-edting days of the //e. Personally, I would not
really go so far as to edit up the boot sectors of my hard drive, because
just one bit misplaced and it will NO LONGER have a boot track. Here is my
suggestion:

I use Silverlining to format my drives, because it is really easy to
partition my drives, and allows me password control. What I was thinking
ofd doing, but never got around too, was using ResEdit to edit the icon
resource in Silverlining itself, then replace the driver. That way,
silverling will take care of sticking it in there.