Create Custom Flash Drive Icons
Contributed by tipmonkies 
Tagged: Windows You can easily make your USB flash drive show up in Windows with a custom icon. Here is how to do it.
To make your USB flash drive show up in Windows with a custom icon follow these steps:
First find an .ico file you want to use. Favicons from websites work nicely, for example. Here is a if you would like to use it.
Next, name your your .ico file autorun.ico and put it in the root of your drive.
Then create a text file with notepad called autorun.inf in the root of the drive and put this inside it:
[autorun]
icon=autorun.ico
(You can actually name the icon anything you want as long as you put the correct filename in the autorun.inf file).
Now, whenever you plug it into a Windows machine, it will show your custom icon!
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AlANTTEEE said on October 15, 2008
You guys are awesome
lulu said on January 11, 2009
what is the root of your drive??
CN said on January 13, 2009
Lulu:
You should place your autorun.inf file on your flash drive, but not in a subfolder.
The “root” of the drive just means the top-level folder.
soaffb1337 said on April 12, 2009
I did this once and it worked, but now I try to change it and it doesn’t let me…how do I fix???
Anonymous said on November 6, 2009
Please sent this way to pyiphyoaung@gmail.com.
Thank you for giving.
Neil_kris said on February 16, 2011
i did this and no icon is showing up
Uzer said on February 17, 2011
Doesn’t work in Win7, only XP