HD icon showing as CD?!?

[CaptainRizla]

Right then. I really doubt anyone knows the answer to this so prove me wrong!
I have WinXP Pro and have just installed my 2nd SATA Hard Drive. After formatting it with Disk Management within XP, I have noticed that the drive icon in My Computer is showing as a CD drive. This doesn't have an affect on using it. I think that somewhere XP has screwed the icons around.
Anyone any idea?

Cheers.

[Soulassassin]

Right click your desktop, goto properties,choose the desktop tab,Customise desktop button (near the bottom) , Restore defaults. Might help, worth a try...

[CaptainRizla]

No luck, unfortunately.
I have even downloaded TweakUI to see if repairing the icons would help but nothing.
I've got no idea how this has happened. When I get a chance I'll change the drive lettering and see if this knocks it into shape.

[CaptainRizla]

Ok, I have found the solution to this and will share it on in case anyone else ever comes across it.

With XP SP2, open Regedit and go to the following path -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon
From here you can change the C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,* (where * indicates a number).

Here is a list of what the number can be and what icon will be displayed -

0 - Default Icon
1 - Default Document
2 - Application
3 - Closed Folder
4 - Open Folder
5 - 5 1/4 Drive
6 - 3 1/4 Drive
7 - Removable Drive
8 - Hard Drive
9 - Network Folder
10 - Network Offline
11 - CD
12 - RAM Drive
13 - Entire Nertwork
15 - My Computer
16 - Printer
17 - Network Neighborhood
18 - Network Workgroup
19-27 are the Start Menu icons
19 - Programs
20 - Desktop
21 - Settings
22 - Find
23 - Help
24 - Run
25 - Suspend
27 - Shutdown
28 - Share
29 - Shortcut
31 - Recycle Bin (Empty)
32 - Recycle Bin (Full)
33 - Folder, Dial-Up Networking
34 - Desktop
36 - Program Group
40 - Audio Card


I hope this helps anyone that stumbles across this problem.
Mine was defaulted to 11 for some really odd reason but it is now sorted. :thumbs