| Change the default black and white icons for Zip drives.
 This is one of those "Good News - Bad News" edits. The good news is that you can change the default icon on your Zip and Jazz drives. The bad news is that the replacement is still black and white, but at least it can be a nicer looking icon.
 There are four icons stored in the Iomega Extension in a nonstandard format.
When we usually edit an icon, we use the ResEdit editor on one of the standard icon families, but in this case, the folks from iomega saved the raw icon data inside the driver code for their products.
This makes it trickier to find, and it is what limits us to a black and white replacement. The goal is to find the 100 bytes of hex data that represent the icon and its mask, and replace it.
 Open a copy of the Iomega Driver extension and find the MDVR resource.
Open it with a double-click.
 The icon data is stored in the "ZipDriver" ID 128, so open it with a double-click.
 What you are seeing highlighted on the left is the 100 bytes of code that represent the Zip drive icon.
The Zip 100 icon starts at row 168, 250M drive is at row 278, 1G Drive is at 390, and the 2G drive is at A40.
The icons are surrounded by the phrase: iomegaDriver 6.0.2. The code starts right after the "2" and stops two characters before the next iomegaDriver 6.0.2. Study the graphic to better understand.
 While still black and white, I thought this icon would be a suitable replacement. If you can't find an icon you like on the net, you can always create a new ResEdit document and add an ICN# resource to create your own.
 Once you have found a replacement, you need to copy its raw hex code to the clipboard, so instead of opening the icon with a double-click, from the Resource menu, select Open Using Hex Editor.
 Once you see the hex code, select all of it and copy to the clipboard.
Switch to the iomega driver and highlight the code for the Zip icon in the MDVR resource.
Paste in the clipboard.
The trickiest part of this edit is being certain you have the correct number of bytes selected in the MDVR driver.
Remember, the icons are surrounded by the phrase: iomegaDriver 6.0.2. The code starts right after the "2" and stops two bytes before the next iomegaDriver 6.0.2.
As long as you're working on a copy, if you make a mistake, you can always boot without extensions are replace the modified extension.
This edit can also be performed on the Iomega Guest application, which also contains the MDVR.
Once you feel confident you have performed the edit correctly, save your work and quit ResEdit. Replace the original extension with the modified one and restart the computer. Pop in a Zip drive and gaze upon your new icon!
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