If anyone can figure out how to fix that issue, please post in the comments. However, on my machine (and that of one commenter to the original tip), the custom icon does not show in the boot loader - I get the generic aluminum internal disk icon instead. According to the tip on MacTelChat, this should make the custom icon visible in the boot loader (as are other custom icons for OS X drives). That's it when you reboot into OS X, your Windows partition will have a nice custom icon. Copy this file to the root level of the Windows XP disk. VolumeIcon.icns sitting there in the top level of the stick. Open a window in XP showing the memory stick's files.To do that, you must be booted into Windows XP. The last step is to get the custom icon itself onto the XP disk.This creates the required entry for the Windows XP drive's custom icon. Using my sample names, the copy command would be: cp. You need to copy a hidden file related to the custom icon you just pasted on the FAT memory stick. (The icon above is from the Carlito's Drives collection.) Copy and paste the custom icon you'd like to use onto the memory stick's icon.Give it a simple one-word name - I'll use FATSTICK for this example. Yesterday, I replaced the hard drive in my computer (MBPro). Every time I turn on the computer I have to hold the option key down in order to choose what drive. I never went through with isntalling Windows or Linux on the dual boot option. The Boot Camp Assistant application creates a Windows partition on your Mac and then restarts your Mac using your Windows installation disc. Months ago I installed boot camp on my Mac (OS 10.4).
Format your USB memory stick in MS-DOS format (FAT) using Disk Utility. Boot Camp lets you install Windows on a Mac computer in its own partition, so you can use either Windows or Mac OS X on your Mac computer.Note that these instructions assume you've already named your Windows XP drive (which you can only do during partitioning or from within Windows.
I found the procedure in this post on the MacTelChat site go there if you want the full step-by-step. There is, however, a workaround (assuming you have a USB memory stick available). The problem, of course, is that the Windows disk is NTFS formatted, and OS X can't write to NTFS. I wanted an easy way to identify the Windows disk while booted in OS X, so I thought I'd stick a custom icon on it, as seen at right. During the setup process, I installed Boot Camp, so that I could run Windows XP on a partition. For the last week or so, I've been setting up my new Mac Pro (and writing about it as I did so), which will soon be the new macosxhints workhorse (thanks to Macworld for letting me retire my own personal G5).