USB Drive Icon Location

Hello there all. I have a question: where are all of the drive icons stored? The USB, FireWire, etc. I think that they would be in the library somewhere, but I am not sure.
Thanks

I found these links. Don't know if this helps.http://osxdaily.com/2014/07/27/mac-os-x-system-icons-location /http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/location-of-mac-os-x-system-icons.html https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1252385?start=0&tstart=0

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For anyone else that may be in a similar situation, I can confirm that this does actually work.
I am unsure why I was not able to mount the original sparseimage that I copied to the USB drive before, but I have gone through the entire process again and I could successfully mount the TM sparseimage onto my MacBook and restore files from within it using TimeMachine to my Mac.
This is a Disaster Recovery solution only needed for if both my NAS and Macbook get stolen or damaged so I am happy with this solution for now.
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