I have a Seagate 2TB external drive which used to have the Seagate logo within the hard drive icon in my computer, However I cloned my old WD drive to the new Seagate one and it also copied over the WD logo so now it shows the drive as a western digital logo and not the Seagate one.

 

I need to remove this as I have to send the drive back for warranty purposes but worried that this may invalidate the warranty.

 

Does anyone here know how I can either remove the WD logo that's embedded into the drive or replace with the Seagate logo as it should be, I have added a screen shot of what I mean - Thanks everyone.

 

It won't invalidate the warranty at all. Its just a file that's been set as the icon for the drive.

You could use an autorun.inf to change the icon of the hard drive. Place an icon of your choice in the root of the hard disk eg. icon.ico and then place an autorun.inf in there also containing...

 

[autorun]

icon=icon.ico

 

and then restart the computer.

Thanks for the posts - If I cat change it least I know the warranty will be ok. Thanks.