Interesting how a blue and green hard disk icon show up as matches, but we’ll cut Google slack on this one. I searched for “red hard drive icon” and got a ton of results: This is where Google Image Search is your friend. Which I guess is fair, since that’s what it is. Darn helpful! The icon, however, is tedious, as you can see in this “Get Info” window: Handy and with a newer micro-SD card inside, it gives me an easy additional 64GB of storage space. I have a Nifty Drive plugged into my MacBook Pro, a hard drive that’s permanently plugged into the SDCard reader on the system.
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There are some hiccups in the process – and sometimes it seems you need to restart your Mac to get the change to “take”, as I’ll explain, but generally it’s as simple as copy and paste. I mean, who wants a clunky metal square sitting on their desktop all day? ? Still, I can appreciate your desire to do something more interesting with a drive icon, particularly the one that’s shown for the built-in hard drive. I think many of them have the icon added when the drive is first formatted by the manufacturer, actually, because it’s sometimes weird how similar the icon is to the physical device, even to the color of the case.
Used to be that every external device you plugged into a Mac system had the same generic hard drive icon, but you’re right, now a lot of drives seem to have their own icons.