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Change the icon of a flash drive or any kind of removable disk which use to store data, is very easy.

Just try this,

1. Open Notepad and copy and paste below 2 lines to it.

[autorun]

Icon=logo.ico

2. Save it as autorun.inf to your flash drive

Before to click Save as… change Save as type to All Files

3. Then copy and paste your Icon file to flash drive

4. Rename it to logo.ico

5. Remove your flash drive from the PC and plug again

You will see your flash drive with a custom icon

For more and clear information check related links below,

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Simply find an .ico file you want to use (favicons from websites work nicely).... name your .ico file autorun.ico and put it in the root of your drive then create a text file called autorun.inf in the root of the drive and put this inside it:

[autorun] icon=autorun.ico

Visit www.smartusb.net

It explain the process step by step,

http://www.smartusb.net/p/change-flash-drive-icon.html

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