10.4.9 and external FW HD Icons

Rather bizarre but since installing 10.4.9 on my intel MBP, the icons for my two firewire external hard drives (both macally) now have boring white with a bit of blue icons instead of the bright orange Drives with the firewire logo on them. If I go into the drive utility, the device has a small orange FW logo but the actual partion has the boring white and blue folder icon again.
Whilst many may find this trivial, it did mean locating my icons was a breeze..... Searches have brought up results showing me how to put a picture in place of an icon, but I;d prefer to have my orange logo back.
Thanks in advance
Paul

I had the same problem with external drives after 10.4.9 - not only icons were not correct, but the system would slow down whenever i connected external FW drives - here's what i did to restore it:
- Boot from external backup drive (i guess Tiger DVDs should also work but i didn't try it)
- Repair permissions on Macintosh HD (internal drive) - I also repaired drive but not sure it's needed here
- In my case, it showed that it repaired permissions for boot.efi
- Shut down and restart from internal drive.
That worked great for me and now the external FW drives show up correctly...
.s.
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Intermediate Level
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Your iPod warranty is expired
You don’t want to pay any service charges
You are prepared to buy a new one
You can’t accept the re-sell value of your broken iPod
Rather than leave your iPod as paper-weight or throw it away.
You can try the following, but again, only do it as your last resort and at your own risk.
Warning ! – It may or may not manage to solve your problem, and with a risk that you may further damage your iPod, which end up as an expensive paper weight or you need to pay more higher repairing cost. Therefore, please re-consider again whether you want to try the next level
Last Resort Level
1. . Disconnecting the Hard Drive and battery inside the iPod – Warning !! Your iPod warranty will be waived once you open the iPod.
In Hong Kong there are some electronic shops offering an iPod service for Sad iPod, the first thing they do is to open up the iPod’s case and disconnecting the battery and the Hard Drive from the main board of the iPod. Wait for 5-10 minutes and reconnecting them back. The reason behind which I can think of is to do a fully reset of a processor of the iPod. In case you want do it itself and you believe that you are good on fixing the electronics devices and have experience to deal with small bits of electronic parts, then you can read the following of how to open the iPod case for battery and HDD replacement (with Quicktimes)
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/directory.html
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2438774#2438774
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What should I do with my iPod? Send it or keep it?
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Strange error on iPod (probably death)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435160&start=0&tstart=0
Sad Face on iPod for no apparent reason
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Meeting the Sad iPod icon
http://askpang.typepad.com/relevanthistory/2004/11/meeting_thesad.html#comment-10519524
Sad faced iPod, but my computer won’t recognize it?
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iPod Photo: unhappy icon + warranty question
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4th Gen iPod Users - are we all having the same problem?
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2237714#2237714
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Sad iPod solution
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=412033&tstart=0
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=443659&tstart=30
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2420150#2420150
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