Custom Icons with FAT32 USB Drive

Hi
I want to put a custom icon on a USB drive that's formatted to FAT32.
When I do this with a Mac OS Extended formatted USB drive, it works fine - the icon is attached to the dive, and appears when the the drive is mounted on another Mac.
But when I do this with a FAT32 formatted USB drive, the icon works on my desktop, but does not appear when the drive is mounted on another Mac.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
Thanks for your help.
Bruno.

Hmm, error -20 is:
-20 writErr Driver can't respond to Write call
I'm not sure why it would be doing that. I've got two PNY brand flash drives and have no problem erasing them under Tiger or Panther. You mention trying to repartition the drive. I suppose it's possible that you can't have more than one partition on a flash drive. Maybe the whole thing has to be one format type. Don't know that for sure, though. I've never tried it.

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