Macintosh HD icon changed to Time Machine Icon!

Hi,
The icon for my main iMac Macintosh HD drive changed to a Time Machine Backups icon for no apparent reason. How can I switch this back to be the original/standard Macintosh HD icon? I presumably have to copy and paste the icon, but where can I locate the original on my iMac's hard drive?
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I also was having this problem and the cut/paste on the Get Info pane was not returning the HD icon to it's original glory. Here's what did work: turn OFF Time Machine, then restart your computer. Your HD icon should return to the original gray icon version. You can then turn TM back on and have the icon remain intact, but the next time you turn off or reboot your machine the icon will return to the green version if you do not turn off TM first. A weird little bug that hopefully gets cured permanently in 5.2 or 5.3.

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Macintosh HD icon changed to Time Machine Icon!

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