Assign a color tag to the Windows partition in OS X desktop

[iRock1]

Hi,

I have the Windows partition right on my OS X desktop. What I want to do is assign it a color tag in Finder.

I already changed the name of that partition from the own Windows environment, however I can't think of any workaround to assign it a color tag on my OS X desktop.

Hopefully I was clear enough...

Any ideas?

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Change its icon.

 

[hfg]

Change its icon.

How do you do that?

Unlike the rest of my drive icons which are easily customized, my Windows drive simply displays the default yellow/orange external disk icon (SSD on a DUO PCIe card). I assume it may be due to the NTFS file structure of the drive and I don't have a NTFS write utility installed in OS X.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

How do you do that?

Unlike the rest of my drive icons which are easily customized, my Windows drive simply displays the default yellow/orange external disk icon (SSD on a DUO PCIe card). I assume it may be due to the NTFS file structure of the drive and I don't have a NTFS write utility installed in OS X.

From the Finder choose Get Info on the drive, select the icon in the info window and paste a new icon right there.

 

[hfg]

From the Finder choose Get Info on the drive, select the icon in the info window and paste a new icon right there.

Yeah ... that's what I normally do with any OS X icon. But the Windows icon just "beeps" when I try to paste the new icon. Do you have a NTFS write utility installed on your OS X system?

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Yeah ... that's what I normally do with any OS X icon. But the Windows icon just "beeps" when I try to paste the new icon. Do you have a NTFS write utility installed on your OS X system?

Ah sorry. You're right, the icon cannot be changed if you can't write to the drive and modify attributes. Too bad OSX can't store the information about other drives on the primary drive.

 

[iRock1]

Ah sorry. You're right, the icon cannot be changed if you can't write to the drive and modify attributes. Too bad OSX can't store the information about other drives on the primary drive.

So in the end what does this mean? I can't do anything about the original problem? Or is there hope using some NTFS utility?