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Add Custom icon to DVD or USB drive

Posted by AVS | On: Jan 31 2009

When you insert a software or game cd into your driver you might have noticed a the icon of the cd drive changes and the logo of the game/software is shown there.Actually this thing can be done quite easily but making a small autorun.inf file and and Icon file(.ico)

Firstly you need a good icon. Icons (.ico format) aren’t easy to find but you might find several jpeg and other image formats which you would like to use as icons.So there are a lot of online software and some freewares which can be used to convert these images to .ico file format[:)]

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Once you have the .ico file you need to create an autorun file.Open notepad and type the following:
[autorun]
ICON=ICONNAMEHERE.ICO
In the above line replace ‘ICONNAMEHERE’ with the icon files name. Once done save the file as autorun.inf.
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Thirdly, while burning a CD or a DVD you need to copy the two files- icon and the autorun.inf into the root directory of the CD/ DVD. That’s it once done burn the disc. When you insert the disc into your drive and go to my computer, you’ll notice your custom disc icon. Same thing applies to pendrive you simply need to place the two files in the root.

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