Hard Drive Icon Problem

[David Lee]

Hi, a friend of mine is having a weird problem with the icon of his recovery partition (D: drive). The problem is the icon shows up looking like the wireless network setup wizard icon ( in the control panel with the green waves coming from a usb key) instead of the usual picture of a hard drive. He's tried repairing icons with tweak ui and deleting various cache files. It's not a desktop icon, but one of the icons that show up when you open up My Computer. It's also strange because the C: drive icon is what it should be. Is there a way to change the icon to what it should be. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

[jbennet]

download TweakUI (Google for XP Powertoys)

go into it and choose the option (its in there somehwehre) for rebuild icons - its a good idea not to change any of the other settings in here unless you know what you are doing

[David Lee]

The first thing he tried was tweak ui (check the post), didn't work. Thanks though.

[xcellpro6]

Hi

Lets look a little at windows basic

C drive main partion
D drive normally CD Rom

Try this right click on MY COMPUTER
select Manage
select Disk Management
this list's all drive's present
right click on D:\ drive and select Change Drive Letters and Paths
select Change
change the drive Letter to E or F
Click ok
click Yes
click yes
and close
reboot

HTH
Darren
South Africa

[draftfs]

I have a Icon problem aswell. My c: drive icon has changed it self to what seems like a folder thats breaking up with a red ! over it. Can someone explain.

[Bob_180_Bob]

Hi,
You have posted to a thread that was last actioned on Dec 16th, 2006
not quite 3 years...
If you want assistance, start your own thread and give a lot of details about your machine, the OS and when your problem started, what you have done to fix it. New programs or hardware you have installed or removed.....etc