Jazz up your Boot Camp bootloader screen

Jazz up your Boot Camp bootloader screen
By javester
05-16-2006

Bored of those old-fashioned HDD icons in your Intel Mac's computer? Learn how to personalize your bootloader here.

Replacing the Mac partition's icon:

Go to your desktop and select the HDD that you want to personalize.
If you don't have your partitions showed in the desktop, you can always go to your computer's folder by pressing Shift+Command+C
Right click the icon and select Get Info or press Command+I
Select the new HDD's icon, right click it and select Get Info
In the new icon's Get Info window, click the icons icon (the one next to its name)
Copy the icon by selecting the Edit>Copy menu or pressing Ctrl+C
Go to the HDD's Get Info window and click the HDD's icon (the one next to its name)
Paste the icon by selecting the Edit>Paste menu or pressing Ctrl+V

Voilá! Your Mac partition has a new icon

Replacing the XP Partition's icon:

If you use a NTFS file system, you will not be able to modify the XP Partition's icon by the "Get Info" procedure. Follow this instructions to see how you can change your XP Partition's icon

Format a USB stick with a FAT file system (you can use any volume really, but it needs to be FAT).
In Mac OS X, set a custom volume icon using the Finder's "More info" window or any tool of your choice.
Open a Terminal window, enter

Quote:

cd /Volumes
ls -la

You'll see a file listed that has the same name as the FAT volume, but with a "._" prepended. For example, "._USBSTICK".
Copy that file to the equivalent name for the Windows XP NTFS partition by typing in the terminal

Quote:

cp ._USBSTICK ._WinXP
Transfer the ".VolumeIcon.icns" file created on the FAT file system to the root of the NTFS partition, using Windows.

Congratulations! Now your XP partition has a new icon!

And where are the replacement, jazzed-up icons? You can always go to interfacelift.com or iconfactory.com and search through hundreds of largely unrelated icons.

Or you can use the bootloader icons that MTC prepared here

Source: OnMac.net

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Appleologist on 06-12-2006, 07:28 PM

XP icon doesn't work

I am using FAT for Windows, and when I change the icon with the "get info" procedure, it doesn't show up in the bootloader (it just shows the standard hard drive icon).

Any ideas?

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Unregistered on 11-16-2006, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Appleologist

I am using FAT for Windows, and when I change the icon with the "get info" procedure, it doesn't show up in the bootloader (it just shows the standard hard drive icon).

Any ideas?

neither do I

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javester on 11-16-2006, 11:59 AM

Sorry guys...
It turns out recent changes suppresses the new icon from being used.

Its still useful though, IMHO, since you can easily identify your FAT partition easily from the Mac and write files to it with OS X with confidence.

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Unregistered on 11-17-2006, 03:58 PM

Alternative Method

I used Disk Utility to create a FAT partitioned disk (you have to use the options to make it use an MBR and then select MS-DOS filesystem).

You do have to copy the two files -- /Volumes/._NAME (which doesn't have to match) and the .VolumeIcon.icns file. I did set the file Hidden/System using attrib while inside Windows.

Finally the change won't show up until you touch the icon. I had everything except the ._WINXP file copied over on my box and noticed that iStatPro had found the .VolumeIcon.icns file (showing the correct icon) and then went back and found the missing ._WINXP file.

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pozerpholife on 12-01-2006, 05:50 AM

Help With The Bootcamp Icons

Hey I've done everything that every single post I've ever seen about transferring the file over and stuff and I can see the VolumeIcon.icns in my C: drive but yet my bootcamp icon hasn't changed at all. Is there a last step I'm missing after getting the file on the C: drive?

Thanks

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axolotl on 12-21-2006, 10:39 AM

While in OS X you can change the Macintosh HD icon using the traditional GetInfo/Copy/Paste method. To change the XP partion icon I downloaded CandyBar from Panic. I had already downloaded Carlito's substitute HD icons. So, I just dropped his XP HD icon into the CandyBar well for Device icons/Internal. Worked like a charm. The new icon doesn't show up in the boot choices screen, but NBD. Looks great on the desktop!

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