Recover Lost or Missing System or Boot Drive Icon in Vista

If you don’t notice yet, the system and boot drives in Windows Vista have a different icon from the other normal non-system or non-boot disk drives. The boot system drive icon has a small Microsoft Windows logo on the image of the drive, which make the logo looks like a small Windows flag, as shown in the illustrations below.

Vista Drive Icons

Vista Different Drive Icons
Unique icon design for system drives in different views in Vista Explorer.

Sometimes, the Windows symbol or logo on the system drive may gone missing or disappearing, causing the system drives to appear using the same disk icon with other standard or normal drives.

To recover and restore the special unique system drive or boot drive icon with Windows logo in Vista, open Services component (type Services in Start Search or go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrator Tools). Locate Shell Hardware Detection, and then double click on it to open Properties dialog. Ensure that the Startup type is set as Automatic, and then restart the computer.

The system drives and boot drives should now has its beautiful unique icon for easy identification.

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This entry was posted on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 3:50 am and is filed under Windows Vista. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Recover Lost or Missing System or Boot Drive Icon in Vista”

  1. Larry English
    August 27th, 2008 02:52
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    after searching everywhere for an answer to this irritating problem, this one worked!!!

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