Cannot set custom icon

I'm trying to set a custom icon on a FAT32 formatted external HDD. What I did is take a PNG and drop it into Icon Composer, then saved the result as .icns with Icon Composer.
I highlight the resulting .icns file and press CMD+C. I open the Get Info window for my external drive, click the icon in the top right of the window (not the one in the title bar) and press CMD+V. Instead of the icon, I get a generic icns file picture as if it was a Preview document, not the icon itself.
Can't imagine why this isn't working. Worked before with other icons. Help?

Same result oddly enough. The result is the aforementioned "Preview document" icon.
Here was the solution! It required the terminal (or hidden files shown). There's the presence of a .VolumeIcon.icns for the drive icon right? Well I just typed +cp /Users/username/Desktop/i.icns .VolumeIcon.icns+ into the Terminal while the current directory was the drive. It overwrote the bad one with the good one. No idea why it couldn't be done via the Get Info window, but it works now.

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Hi mKorbel, many thanks for your suggestion!
For anyone interestsed,
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* http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0240__Swing/CustomizingJCheckBoxCheckMarkIcon.htm
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.Color;
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import java.awt.Graphics;
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import java.net.URL;
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Unable to set custom icon for system drive

Title says it all. Can't paste new custom icon onto drive icon in the Info panel-nothing happens. Any ideas?

When a custom icon is applied to a folder (including the "boot drive" icon, which is really just the top level folder), an invisible "Icon\r" file is created inside that folder (or a ".VolumeIcon.icns" in case of a volume - I missed this in the last post, sorry) and the "Custom Icon" file attribute is set. In order to do these things, a user must have sufficient privileges to modify the folder.
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So if you had previously modified the permissions on the boot drive to allow non-admins to make changes, then certainly you woudn't have to have "admin" privileges to do this. But that is not the "normal" state.
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The following script uses a handler that will set a custom icon to a file item. In this example, you are prompted for the icon file and the file item to set to the icon, but you can just pass the desired image and folder paths directly to the handler.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFD891;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
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hi.
I created a visual studio project (VS 2013, windows 8) from a exist project in the selution, but i can't set the icon on the desktop and program menu.
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