My Icon for my external hard drive isnt showing correctly

darkfoxx

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After I completely wiped my hard drive and re-installed windows 7 my icon for my external hard drive now displays incorrectly. Some other icons have done it too but I figured if I can just fix one, I can apply that knowledge to the others. So far I have right clicked it chose customize then under the "Folder pictures" section "choose file" then tried to change it that way, it didn't work. Here's a screenshot of the icons current state.

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Louise Porkolt

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After installing windows, have you installed all windows "updates" ???
usually they may contain the right and new drivers for your hardware !

Just goto the control panel and start "windows updates".
Let us know if that was enough !

Cheers, Louise.
 

coolamitraj

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Hi

You might see if unplugging it and reconnecting it may allow it to display properly after Windows 7 re detects it.


Show Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives
Go to Control Folders

A) Select (dot) Show hidden files, folders, and drives.
B) Click on the Apply button.

Look for a desktop.ini If one is there, then delete it. You may need to restart afterwards for the icon to display.



Cheers Amit
 

darkfoxx

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Updating and reconnecting the drive did nothing but I did fix it by using the AVG tuneup program and clicking the "Fix commmon problems" tab then checking off "icons are displayed incorrectly" and "mini icons are displayed incorrectly" options.

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rgmoore

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Often the icon file is in the root folder, and is referenced via autorun.inf when connected. If you cleared the drive, these will have gone and need to be re-created.