Reader Gene Dybinski would like to lend his mother a hand. He writes:
Last March I bought a new Power Mac G5, and almost immediately saw an article (on either this site or in the magazine) on how to remove or hide the hard drive icon from the upper right corner of the Desktop. Worked just fine!Now we bought my mother a new 20” Intel iMac, and I can’t remember how to hide the hard drive icon, nor find the article on how to do it. Please help me out here.
Apple apparently thinks that you’d prefer not to see the icons for your Mac’s built-in hard drive, solid-state drive, or those of any external drives on the desktop of macOS. However, I want those icons on my desktop. If you’re like me, here’s how to make them show up. Click on the desktop so the Finder is “active.”. Icon submissions back to normal, I'm working hard on getting as may icons as I can back. Read more about the hack. Submit icons Donate. Submit icons Buy me a coffee. 😄 All icons have been uploaded. All icons have been updated. Icon has been approved. There has been an error, please Approve again. Hard Drive icon - World 's best selection of high quality Free Hard Drive icons. Hard Drive Formatting. OS X, Windows, and Linux all use different hard drive formatting for normal system operations. A hard drive format refers to how the operating system stores the data on the drive. There are three common filesystems that are used today: HFS+, NTFS, and FAT32. Mac OS X uses HFS+, Windows uses NTFS and used to use FAT32.
Happy to. From the Finder menu choose Preferences and, if it’s not selected, click the General tab in the resulting window. You’ll see the option to show specific items on the Desktop. They include hard disks, CDs, DVDs, and iPods; and connected servers. Simply uncheck the Hard Disk option and the Desktop is HD icon-free. Should you care to, you can remove hard drive icons from the Sidebar as well. Just click the Sidebar tab in this same Preferences window and disable the Hard Disk option here too.
Here’s a little bonus tip: You can go the opposite way and make a hard drive icon (or folder, if you like) appear in even more places than usual. Specifically you can cause a hard drive icon to appear in the toolbar of every Finder window. To do so, just drag the volume’s icon to an open Finder window’s toolbar (the area where the Search field appears). Hold it there for a couple of seconds until you see the green plus sign. Let go of the mouse button and the volume’s icon will appear in the toolbar.
Should you later wish to remove it, just hold down the Command key and drag it out of the toolbar.
Hard Drive Icons For Macos
Custom icons for AKiTiO storage drives:
| File | Description | File size | Last modified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the aDrive U3 | 1371 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for generic AKiTiO drive | 896 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Palm RAID | 1363 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for AKiTiO Thunder2 Duo Pro | 3160 kB | Jun 02, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad | 1728 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for AKiTiO Thunder2 Quad Mini | 1595 kB | May 17, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for AKiTiO Thunder2 Storage-AV | 1364 kB | Jun 01, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Thunder3 Duo Pro | 1143 kB | May 24, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO Thunder3 Quad Mini | 957 kB | Jun 13, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the AKiTiO ThunderGo | 1255 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino Thunder D3 | 1433 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino Thunder Duo | 1539 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino Thunderbolt Edition | 1329 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino U3 | 1863 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Neutrino U3+ | 1863 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the NT2 U3.1 | 1017 kB | Jun 13, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for SK-2500 U3 | 3654 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the SK-2520 U3.1 | 975 kB | May 24, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the SK-3501 U3 | 1130 kB | Jun 13, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for Taurus Super-S LCM | 3261 kB | Feb 03, 2015 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Thunder3 Quad X | 801 kB | Aug 17, 2017 | |
| Drive icon (*.icns) for the Thunder3 RAID Station | 1658 kB | Mar 15, 2018 |
How to change a drive icon on Mac OS X
Hard Drive Icon Mac
- Turn on the external drive and connect it to your computer.
- Download the icon for the corresponding drive from above and store the ZIP file on your computer.
- Unzip the file and store the image found inside it (*.icns) on the desktop.
- Click on the drive on your desktop to select it and then choose Get Info from the file menu or click Command + I.
- Make sure that you have permissions to access and edit the drive. Usually, there is no need to change anything but if you have read only access, it's not possible to change the drive icon.
- Drag the *.icns image from your desktop to the little drive icon in the top left corner of the Info window. When you see a green plus sign, drop it to change the icon.
- Done! You can now delete the *.icns image from your desktop.
- To restore the default drive icon, go back to Get Info. Select the little drive icon in the top left corner of the Info window and then select Cut from the edit menu.