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Article #13288Re: Changing HD icon
From: Hyunsuk Seung
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1991 04:03
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1991 04:03
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In article <40397@netnews.upenn.edu> gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) writes: ... >They say the icon is stored on the HD's boot blocks (notice it's not in the >finder, desktop, or system...)so, get a visual copy of the icon you have >now via a screen dump, etc. Hex dump it with McSink, etc. >Use this hex code as a search pattern in a sector editor (norton, SUM, etc) >and replace the found hex with a hex dump from the icon you'd prefer to have. ... The HD icon is stored in HD installer's resource file. Just use ResEdit to edit it, and reformat the HD... although that means you must make a backup from your HD. -- H.Seung hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu 3820 Locust Walk #876 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hseung From: hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Changing HD icon Message-ID: <40418@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 04:03:20 GMT References: <1991Apr02.191258.26623@ariel.unm.edu> <40397@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: eniac.seas.upenn.edu