Free Mac Hard Drive Icons

Note: Upgrading the old hard drive of your Mac to a solid-state drive (SSD) will bring a new life into a dying computer. Get Rid of Clutter. Get rid of clutter by removing big files that you no longer require. Click the 'review files' button and then pick any file category in the sidebar like Trash, Music, Documents, Creation, or Applications. In these screenshots I applied custom icons to internal drives, but it also works for external hard drives, including USB flash drives. Even better: in my tests, changing an icon on one Mac will change it on every Mac, so you’ll always be able to quickly find your drive if you’re using another computer. Hard drive Icons - Download 961 Free Hard drive icons @ IconArchive. Search more than 600,000 icons for Web & Desktop here. See Time Machine icon below: TOP Windows. If you reformat or erase your external hard drive in Windows, the disk icon may change to the generic icon. Free Disk icons! Download 1,220 vector icons and icon kits.Available in PNG, ICO or ICNS icons for Mac for free use. You can put the icons for drives on a Mac's desktop by adjusting Finder's. Congrats on the new Mac, but yes, I can see how it might be a bit odd that there’s no hard drive icon sitting on your desktop. Now, one way to deal with a missing Macintosh HD icon is to simply select New Finder Window from the Finder’s File menu at the top of the screen; doing so will open a new window that’ll allow you to dig into any volume accessible from your Mac.

Nicole writes: I just got a new MacBook Air and really like it; however, the Macintosh HD icon is missing from the desktop. How do I set that up?

Hi Nicole! Congrats on the new Mac, but yes, I can see how it might be a bit odd that there’s no hard drive icon sitting on your desktop.

Now, one way to deal with a missing Macintosh HD icon is to simply select New Finder Window from the Finder’s File menu at the top of the screen; doing so will open a new window that’ll allow you to dig into any volume accessible from your Mac, including your hard drive.

No “Macintosh HD” icon on your Mac desktop? Make sure the “Hard disks” box is checked in the Finder Preferences window.

That said, I totally get why you’d want the missing Macintosh HD icon back on your desktop. Here’s how to do it.

Click the Finder’s File menu at the top of the screen (just click the bare desktop if you don’t see the word “Finder” next to the Apple menu), then select Finder Preferences and click the General tab.
You should now see a list of all the items that will show up on your desktop. Go ahead and check the box next to “Hard disks.”

Now, go back and check your desktop. You should see the missing Macintosh HD icon sitting right there, right where it should be.

Hope that helps, Nicole. Still have questions? Let me know!

Bonus tip

Click the Sidebar tab in the Finder Preferences window to pick and choose which items appear in the sidebar of any Finder window. Among the choices: “All My Files,” Applications, your hard drives, and Downloads.

Reader Gene Dybinski would like to lend his mother a hand. He writes:

Last March I bought a new Power Mac G5, and almost immediately saw an article (on either this site or in the magazine) on how to remove or hide the hard drive icon from the upper right corner of the Desktop. Worked just fine!

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Now we bought my mother a new 20” Intel iMac, and I can’t remember how to hide the hard drive icon, nor find the article on how to do it. Please help me out here.

Happy to. From the Finder menu choose Preferences and, if it’s not selected, click the General tab in the resulting window. You’ll see the option to show specific items on the Desktop. They include hard disks, CDs, DVDs, and iPods; and connected servers. Simply uncheck the Hard Disk option and the Desktop is HD icon-free. Should you care to, you can remove hard drive icons from the Sidebar as well. Just click the Sidebar tab in this same Preferences window and disable the Hard Disk option here too.

Here’s a little bonus tip: You can go the opposite way and make a hard drive icon (or folder, if you like) appear in even more places than usual. Specifically you can cause a hard drive icon to appear in the toolbar of every Finder window. To do so, just drag the volume’s icon to an open Finder window’s toolbar (the area where the Search field appears). Hold it there for a couple of seconds until you see the green plus sign. Let go of the mouse button and the volume’s icon will appear in the toolbar.