11-29-2009, 01:33 AM
There's an advanced way to do this, using a couple different freeware apps, that allows you to really customize the icon of a hard drive, or any folder or icon you want to alter to your own taste.
I got really obsessed with this a few months ago, and fine tuned all my external hard drive and thumb drive images. Using Google image search, I got images of the exact type and brand of USB flash drive, and of Western Digital Passport drives, and various OWC external drive enclosures. Then I take those images, and process them into icon files. Then associate them with the desktop icon they are assigned to represent. That way I can immediately recognize the hard drive that my desktop HD icon refers to, using the exact miniaturized image of the real thing.
Now I'm hooked, I can't imagine it being any other way. If you have only one or two extra drives, it's not a big deal. But a lot of us are HD collectors, and have as many as ten on a local network. Then it really comes in handy.
I got really obsessed with this a few months ago, and fine tuned all my external hard drive and thumb drive images. Using Google image search, I got images of the exact type and brand of USB flash drive, and of Western Digital Passport drives, and various OWC external drive enclosures. Then I take those images, and process them into icon files. Then associate them with the desktop icon they are assigned to represent. That way I can immediately recognize the hard drive that my desktop HD icon refers to, using the exact miniaturized image of the real thing.
Now I'm hooked, I can't imagine it being any other way. If you have only one or two extra drives, it's not a big deal. But a lot of us are HD collectors, and have as many as ten on a local network. Then it really comes in handy.