Drive Icon Missing | Drive Icon Changed In Windows

Posted by Abhishek in troubleshooting tips 

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Trouble:

Recently one of our readers reported that his drive icon is not visible for a particular drive. This kind of problem was once reported earlier by one of our readers Kavi.

Kavi himself solved this problem and sent sent us the fix before we started working on the problem. So today I am going to share this fix with you. Thanks Kavi !

In the snapshot below you can see that icon for C drive is missing (C:).

drive-icon-missing

We will share the simple registry hack to fix this issue.

Fix:

The fix is really simple, follow the below steps:

1. Go to Start > Run , type "regedit" and press enter, this will open registry editor.

2. Locate the following registry Key :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorere\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon

Click to enlarge the image below, here you will see that the registry entry at this location is either set to 0 or some in-valid value.

drive-icon-set-to-zero-or-invalid-value

3. Double Click on the entry and type the below value in it:

C:\windows\System32\SHELL32.dll,8

and press ok, as you can see in image below:

put-the-drive-icon-path

The corrected key will look as below:

correctted-drive-icon-path

Its Done! Now just open My Computer and you will see the icon properly as below:

drive-icon-corrected

The above example was for C drive, for any other drive for example F drive, replace C in the registry key mentioned in step 2 above with F. Please share your comments and suggestion through form below.

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Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed says, September 21st, 2008   

Thank you Admin.

Thank you Kavi.

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Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed says, September 21st, 2008   

There is no DriveIcons!!!!!!!

Is that a problem ?

Thanks .

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kavi says, September 21st, 2008   

Respected Abhishek / Rohit.
Kavi is here. It is a matter of honor to register one’s name in your website.
And I found my name here. I’m a big fan of this site, and have been sharing my problems and
Questions. It will be my pleasure if I share any FIX with you. I have been and will share.
Thanking you.

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kavi says, September 21st, 2008   

Deyaa,
One technique for assigning a drive-specific icon uses a file named Autorun.inf in the root directory of that drive. Launch Notepad and enter [autorun] on the first line. Enter ICON= on the second line, followed by the full pathname of the icon-holding file, a comma, and the icon index. It might look like this:

[autorun]

ICON=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL,8

Save the file as “C:\autorun.inf” (you need the quotes to prevent Notepad from appending the .txt extension). Now restart the computer. When you open Windows Explorer, the drive SHOULD display its icon.

If still problem is there, then ask, we will find some another solution.

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Rohit says, September 21st, 2008   

@Deeya

There is no problem if the entry is not there in your registry. It means that default icon will be displayed always.

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ritunath says, September 28th, 2008   

when i am playing windows media player and subsequently a new explorer,”isvbr.net/?t=3&embedded=false” is opened.
please tell me the reason and remedy via registry.

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Fritz says, December 12th, 2008   

I uninstalled a virtual drive and it left some keys in the registry. And because of these leftover keys, one of my drive icons was missing. With your suggestion, I was able to restore my missing drive icon. Thanks!

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Sangita says, April 10th, 2009   

Hi Admin/Kavi,

I could not find the drive icon folder in the explorer folder in reg edit….please provide me a solution for this problem and also when i double click the drive, search window is getting opened…please help me……..

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Alex says, April 19th, 2009   

Hi all,

I could not find the folder Explorere in my registry. I did find a folder named Explorer but it did not contain the DriveIcons folder.
I have the Autorun files in my WD drive. The icon still will not show up even after safely removing the drive and rebooting my computer. The drive works correctly, it just has the “no icon” icon in my computer. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

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