Comments on: How to fix this icon?

Question: How to fix this icon?

catatethebird — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:04:55 -0800

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.

By: quin

quin — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:49:35 -0800

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.

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:18:11 -0800

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.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:06:00 -0800

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."

By: catatethebird

catatethebird — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:10:44 -0800

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.

By: signal

signal — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:26:54 -0800

Try tweakui first.

By: signal

signal — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:27:38 -0800

Here.