Applying Custom Hard Drive Icons You can also change the icon that represents a hard drive, including external hard drives such as USB flash drives: Make sure the drive in question is connected to your Mac. Open a ‘Finder’ window and navigate to the image you want to use as your new icon.
This page is a wiki. Please login or create an account to begin editing.- The hard drive icons on your desktop are helpful for easy access to their contents. Some of these icons are the primary drive, secondary drive and the external drive. It would be a huge inconvenience if these icons disappear. There are several reasons why these Mac hard drive icons may disappear. This includes incorrect settings and corrupted.
- If you reformat or erase your external hard drive in macOS, the disk icon may change to the generic icon. You can change the icon back to the original image as long as you have an.icns file.
- How to remove the hard drive icons from your desktop on Mac OS X. This is simple trick found in the Finder Preferences that will help you declutter your desk.
How To Change Hard Drive Icons Mac
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mac_os_hd_icons.sit (3.19 KB)
MD5: 568a7e51daa0fa2f2fb844f5033f6a12
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II,
Basilisk II and SheepShaver default to the 2D Mac OS 7 style hard drive icon even when running OS 8 and 9, so for anyone who wants the standard OS 8.0-8.1 and 8.5-9.0 icons they are packaged in .sit in this download. Just extract with StuffIt Expander 5.5, select one of these icons, choose Get Info from the File menu, click the icon and choose copy from the Edit menu, then select the drive you want to change the icon of, choose Get Info from the file menu, click the icon and choose Paste from the Edit menu.
If you can't copy the icons into the Get Info window, read the comment below by MikeTomTom.
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mac_os_hd_icons.sit (3.19 KB)
MD5: 568a7e51daa0fa2f2fb844f5033f6a12
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II,
Basilisk II and SheepShaver default to the 2D Mac OS 7 style hard drive icon even when running OS 8 and 9, so for anyone who wants the standard OS 8.0-8.1 and 8.5-9.0 icons they are packaged in .sit in this download. Just extract with StuffIt Expander 5.5, select one of these icons, choose Get Info from the File menu, click the icon and choose copy from the Edit menu, then select the drive you want to change the icon of, choose Get Info from the file menu, click the icon and choose Paste from the Edit menu.
If you can't copy the icons into the Get Info window, read the comment below by MikeTomTom.
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