How to Change Removable Disk Default Icons

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Here is  simple tips to change removable disk default icons in windows. As you can see the default removable disk default icons is similar like windows hard drives icons which might confusing and very hard to difference them.

Windows Removable drive icons

To avoid this icons confusing or improves the visibility of the removable drives, you can customize the removable disk icons with other icons within three simple four step only. The customization removable icons step is simple to implement and customize the icons of the USB stick icons.

Step to changes the removable hard drive icons:

  1. Choose a nice and pretty icons with .ico extension which the icons will represent the removable disk icons ( Link for Quality Vista Icons)
  2. create an autorun.inf using notepad and entering text showed below to display Customize Removable drive icons commandicons to represent the removable drive icons. [AutoRun ]Label= “Name of Removable Disk “Icon= “Icon’s_Name.ico”
  3. Copy both files (autorun.inf and Icon file) to your removable drive and make the both files as hidden files to avoid accidentally delete the autorun files and icons.
  4. unplug and plug it back the removable drives . Then you will see a brand new icons and new name that represent your removable hard drive.

Here is the output of changing removable disk default icons tutorial, now the removable disk can been noticed easier.
Customize Removable drive icons and name

Posted on 16. Jan, 2008 by km in Tips, Windows

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13 Comments for How to Change Removable Disk Default Icons

balkan Says

01. Mar, 2008

nothing happened..

cubex Says

20. May, 2008

same… nothing happened… solution??? The icon appears like application icon

km Says

21. May, 2008

@Balkan and Cubex,

Do you placed the autorun.inf files at the removable drives.

if not, there will be no icons display

creative removable disk manager Says

03. Jun, 2008

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puneet Says

16. Dec, 2008

salo pendrive mei pahle se he autorun ki file hai aur vo use delete kar deti hai

Adventurer Alive Says

29. Jan, 2009

Wonderful….. take a picture of each device and create the icon from the picture! Live in the real world! throw away your t-shirts and get outside and live!

me Says

06. Apr, 2009

it needs to be in the format
[autorun]
icon=\iconname.ico

nartabriz Says

09. Apr, 2009

very good
it’s working

Paul Says

12. Jun, 2009

This works, but the icon reverts back to the default when the card is removed.
How do you change it so that the new icon is permenant?
Thanks

MAGNUMHEART Says

27. Jul, 2009

it works just fine. be sure to make it AUTORUN.inf people. ^^

wont work with other filename.

make it as system file so it wudn’t be seen even if u

have option show hidden files enabled. ^^

Create Autorun Application on USB or CD/DVD with Autorun Maker Says

14. Sep, 2009

[...] autorun features, AutoRun maker also change your USB stick’s icon or make an autorun DVD or create entries in portable media’s context menu without having to [...]

Malinga Says

29. Sep, 2009

Where is the usb icon they used from?

km Says

29. Sep, 2009

@Malinga

You can search and download USB icon(.ico format) from the internet.

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