Custom OSX/Vista HDD Icons

Alright, I'm a huge fan of the OSX icons/visual theme already... But I have custom icons for my USB drives, my external drives, my camera, and even my phone, all made by myself... which were easy enough just to get a photo off google.
but here-in-lies the problem...
I WANT CUSTOM HDD ICONS TOO!
I can't simply search google for those ones...
So I'm turning to you, the people who have helped me with everything in the past.
I need one with the OSX Logo on it, and one with a Vista logo on it.
Perhaps just the X (or even finder's icon) and then the windows logo.
I have no problem with you taking the default icon and simply editing them. I love the default icons as is.

Hi,
You can costum made yourself using this application:
http://www.naratt.com/FolderIconX.html
Good Luck.

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