A few weeks ago on the Accidental Tech Podcast, Casey reminded me that it’s possible to customize the icons shown for hard drives. I knew this ... so I searched for “os x El Capitan” and then clicked ...

Hard drives in OS X are by default readable by everyone ... to the system are shown as folders with a relevant hard-drive icon (such as generic internal or external, or Time Machine).

Double-click the highlighted "Disk Utility" icon to open Disk Utility ... and attempt to format troublesome hard drives that can't be formatted within Mac OS X. When entering a new name for ...

Mac user Alex mounts a few different hard ... icon for each. To do this yourself you need Icon Composer, which is available in Apple's Developer Tools (Xcode, to be exact), which comes on your OS ...

If you have a partitioned hard drive, you simply need to select the partition to which OS X will be reinstalled when ... or if you see your personal icons, you did not boot into Lion Recovery.

If you go overboard, LiteIcon also has a restore option which will roll back to the original OS X icon theme. As long as you're customizing icons, here's how to customize your hard drive icons.

The Iconfactory has released a new icon set, “G5 Drives,” designed to celebrate ... CandyBar is the US$12.95 Mac OS X icon customization tool from the Iconfactory and Panic.

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Target Disk Mode is a feature that allows a Mac to act as an external hard drive. Until recently ... Before you start, update OS X to the latest version and download and install the Thunderbolt ...

External hard drives can sometimes continually spin and become exceptionally hot. Here are some ways to manage this to help prolong the life of your drive. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

New Mac OS X hard drive icons released Posted by mactech | Aug 6, 2002 | Uncategorized | The Iconfactory has released Xtra Drives , a collection of 12 hard drive icons with various skins, from a ...