The image is in the clipboard, select HD and get info, click on the HD icon and paste... the icon from the clipboard replaces the old icon....right?

Wrong... I cannot get it to work.

I try another folder and that icon changes no problem but the HD will not. Is there an easy fix I can do to change this?

Yvonne.....[ using 10.3.9 but encountered the same problem on a 10.4 machine]

ps... I have managed to make the change but one may not always have a second Mac on hand to target boot.