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From: Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.mn.org (Jim Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Changing HD icon
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Date: 7 Apr 91 04:10:18 GMT
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Nathan Gasser writes in a message to All

NG> Don't like Facade, eh? Try IconMaster cdev. No go? Here's my 
NG> theoretical solution. Don't know why it shouldn't work, but I've 
NG> never been brave enough to try it. Here goes: 
NG> They say the icon is stored on the HD's boot blocks (notice it's 
NG> not in the finder, desktop, or system...)so, get a visual copy 
NG> of the icon you have now via a screen dump, etc. Hex dump it 
NG> with McSink, etc. Use this hex code as a search pattern in a 
NG> sector editor (norton, SUM, etc) and replace the found hex with 
NG> a hex dump from the icon you'd prefer to have. 
NG> I'm serious about this. If anyone has the guts to sector-edit 
NG> his/her boot blocks, I'd like to know if this method works. I 
NG> miss the sector-editing days of yore with my Apple //e. 

While you could mess around with disk editors, it would be a pain.  Easier, get a copy of System 7.0 when it comes out next month.  You can select the icon of the drive in the Get Information window and paste a picture to be used as the disk icon.  Voila, instant icon change.