At the last meeting I noticed that the Windows partition on your Mac had a name and icon.

Mine (dedicated hard drive) has the fantastic name of "untitled" with a generic HD icon. It will not let me change its name or give it a new icon.

So how did you do this??

Also what was the name of your RSS reader you were using??

To answer your questions, I actually did have a generic hard drive icon. I changed the name by doing it from Windows. You do that by right-clicking on the C: drive, selecting Properties and changing the name (or adding a name if it doesn't already exist).

Adding a custom drive icon is easy if your Windows partition is FAT32. You can change a FAT32 drive icon by doing the same copy and paste of the icon in the Get Info window that you'd do for a Mac-formatted (HFS+) drive. However, most XP and Vista installations will use NTFS. Adding a custom drive icon to an NTFS partition isn't for the faint of heart.

Here's a webpage that describes how to do it. I didn't do it right the first time I tried it. However, I now have a custom drive icon for my Vista partition.

The RSS reader I use is called Vienna.


Bob C