How To Create Custom Usb Icons For Mac And Windows

Jan 27, 2013  On a Mac, plug in a USB drive or slide a CD or DVD into a drive, and an icon will instantly appear on the desktop. Remove the disk and the icon will vanish. But if you’re a fan of Windows, you don’t need to consider making the jump to a Mac to take advantage of this feature – nor do you need to fudge it by having icons for all of your.

you need to rename your ._WINXP file to match the name of the drive..
i.e. if you name the drive (in Windows) 'Windows XP' then the file in /Volumes/ needs to be '._Windows XP'.
Also, you need to make sure that the icon on the NTFS drive is a Hidden, System file. (attrib +s +h .VolumeIcon.icns)

I noted the first requirement in the hint; I'll set those attributes and see if anything changes - thanks for the tip.
-rob.

Nope, still no go. My boot loader insists on using a stock aluminum drive icon. Durn.
-rob.

Does Candy Bar show the custom icon on the boot loader screen?
-rob. Little snitch 4.2.4 mac torrent.

Sorry, I neverlooked at the Boot Screen after using CandyBar to change the icon.
I use reFit instead of Apple's Option Boot Loader, with reFit you can change the Icons to whatever you feel like, plus you can customise the look of the entire boot loader screen to match your company or personal preference, and there is no need to hold option down when booting.
http://refit.sourceforge.net/

I try the Candy Bar option but there is a problem.
In the Volume Tab of CB I see only the Macintosh partition HD but not the one with Windows Installed.
How I can change the Win HD icon?
Ciao
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Maclub president :-)

Same for me, doesn't work under Leopard. I followed this procedure under Tiger and it worked fine, but now with Leopard, I don't have no hidden file named ._USBKEY. When I liste the /Volumes I don't see any invisible file..
Someone has a solution?

Yep - I'm having the same problem. I format the flash drive to FAT, copy an icon to it using the info copy/paste route (so it looks as I want the windows drive to look on my desktop), open terminal, type cd /Volumes - and don't see any ._ files at all..
Macintosh-2:Volumes rumbers$ cd /Volumes
Macintosh-2:Volumes rumbers$ ls-la
total 56
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 2 Feb 08:05 .
drwxrwxrw-t@ 35 root admin 1258 27 Jan 10.36 .
drwxrwxrwx @ 1 rumbers rumbers 16384 2 Feb 08:09 FATSTICK
drwxr-xr-x 3 rumbers admin 102 134 Jan 10.42 MAT'S 1GB
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 1 Feb 20:04 The MacBook Pro -> /
drwxr-xr-x 1 rumbers 8192 1 Feb 20:01 Windows
And that's it!
Tried doing the copy ._FATSTICK ._Windows, but there's no file there to copy. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Mat

Same as rumbers.. i can't see the '._' files after entering ls -la

So.... Would this have any chance of working in Snow Leopard with Windows 7?

Whenever you connect a device or drive to your computer, Windows 10 will quickly recognize it and display its name and default icon. The operating system in many cases can even detect exactly which device is connected and download the icon that matches the physical design of the device.

However, if you're bored of seeing the same default icon every time, the correct icon is missing, or you want to add something more fun or see an icon that matches the content inside the drive, it's possible to customize your removable drive to show a custom icon and label.

In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to add a custom icon and label to your external drive.

How to set a custom icon for a removable drive

The process to display a custom icon on a removable drive involves supplying an icon file and an autorun.inf file, which you will be storing on the removable drive.

Before you begin, you'll need the icon file (.ico) you want to use. You can find tons of icons on the web, many of which are freely available. For the purpose of this guide, I'll be using a USB icon from IconArchive, but you can download different icons from many other websites.

Once you downloaded the .ico file, you'll need to copy the icon and create autorun.inf file on your removable drive using these steps:

1. Connect the removable drive you want to set a custom icon.
2. Using File Explorer, open the removable drive.

3. At the root of the drive, right-click, select New, and click Text Document.

4. Name the file autorun.inf and press Enter.

   Quick Tip: If your system isn't displaying extension for files, you need to open the View tab on File Explorer and click the File name extensions option to rename the text file autorun.inf properly. Otherwise, after renaming the file, you'll end up with autorun.inf.txt, which isn't correct.

5. Click Yes to confirm the rename.

6. Double-click the autorun.inf to open the file and copy and paste the following:

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   On Icon make sure to change icon-name.ico with the name of your icon, and on Label change drive-label with the drive label you want.

7. Click File.
8. Click Save.
9. Close the text editor.
10. Select the autorun.inf and the icon right files.

11. Right-click the selection and click Properties.

12. Under Attributes, check the Hidden option to make these files invisible inside the drive, so you don't delete them by mistake.

13. Click Apply.
14. Click OK to complete the task.

Once you completed the steps, you can disconnect and reconnect the removable drive, and now on File Explorer, you'll see the drive with the new icon and label.

If you want to revert the changes, simply open the removable drive with File Explorer, make sure in the View tab 'Hidden items' is checked, and simply delete the icon and autorun.inf files.

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