How to Change Drive Icons in Windows 7,8 & 8.1

One thing where windows attracts its users is its customization possibility. Being an avid windows user, I love changing icons especially for Hard disk icons. It makes them looks awesome and also help easily to identify.

Now we are going to discuss today is a manual process and another one that involves the use of a third party tool.

Before we start to change icon.i suggest some of best sites from where you can get awesome icons for your folder and Disk drives

Manual Way

Select an icon for your hard disk drive and paste it inside the drive you want to change icon

Launch Notepad and copy the code shown below.Note that you should replace iconname.ico with the name of your icon file

[autorun]
ICON=iconname.ico

The file i created in notepad contain code as show in below image. I change iconname with downloadicon

Save this file in the drive you want to change icon.You should save the file with the Filename autorun.inf

Restart Your computer.You can see the change

By Folder IChanger

If You loves modifying your folders and drive icons, Then you can use Folder IChanger. This application lets you to change icons of your folders, hard drives and pendrives.What makes it superb is that, it change icon permanently. That is you may note that even if you move your folders to another computer doesn't contain folder IChanger, It will not change icon into its standard form.
Folder Ichanger has a great Great graphical user interface.It contains various buttons at top and there is an icon preview panel.The application works on the drag and drop procedure and easy to handle.

Download the application and run the exe file.Then open the application.

Click on Import or choose button. Then choose your icon file.

You can see image of the icon preview panel.Then Go to Add Folder or Directory>Primary Directory Only Then in the newly opened window you have to select the drive or folder whose icon you want to change.Then click on OK Button.