How to fix this icon?

March 14, 2007 4:04 PM

How can I change the icon (that shows up in My Computer, etc.) for a hard drive in Windows XP?

This is mainly an aesthetic problem.
I have a second internal hard drive (F), and in 'My Computer' and when opened, it used to show the normal hard drive icon, just like my C drive. Then one day I turned on my computer, and there was the little broken icon image. Now, the icon itself still exists on my computer, my C drive still has it. My problem is I can't find any way to fix the broken icon. In other folders, if you right click and open properties, there is a 'customize' tab. This doesn't show up in the properties for the F drive. So how can I change it?
I know this isn't a huge problem, but it has been bothering me.

posted by catatethebird to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Well, this says you can't, but this seems to say otherwise.

Unfortunately my work machine is locked down, I can't test it myself till I get home.
posted by quin at 4:49 PM on March 14, 2007

I use IconPackager to do exactly this. It lets you specify icons for hard drives, as well as letting you change the default folder icon, among a million other things.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 5:18 PM on March 14, 2007

if you're talking about xp and you don't really have a pressing need to replace the icon (just put back the one you had before), get the tweakui powertoy from microsoft and the last option will be "repair" which should let you "rebuild icons."
posted by juv3nal at 6:06 PM on March 14, 2007

Thanks, both of you... quin, what your second link shows is what I tried first, but there is no customize option for a hard drive icon....
I'm going to try IconPackager and see if it works.
posted by catatethebird at 6:10 PM on March 14, 2007

Try tweakui first.
posted by signal at 7:26 PM on March 14, 2007

Here.
posted by signal at 7:27 PM on March 14, 2007