What folder is the standard Hard Drive icon kept in?

My HD icon has changed into the Time Machine icon. I want the old icon back. Anybody know where I can find it?

There are lots of interesting icns and tif files stored in some unusual places. Unfortunately you can't force Spotlight to look for most of them, but EasyFind will:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/
Thus if you tell Spotlight to look for icns files in the /System folder, it will find 133 items. Telling EasyFind to look in /System, and checking the boxes for Packages Contents and Invisibles, yields 705. If you look in /Library with EasyFind there's an additional 1000 icns files. Most are of no great interest, and have rather cryptic names, not to mention a lot of repetition. But many are pretty cool and you may never see them any other way. Often the "Where" column offers a good clue as to what the icon is and whether it would interesting. So anything in a support folder for a printer you don't have probably wouldn't be of interest, but some other odd things might. For instance, there is an icon in "/Library/Receipts/iWeb_202.pkg/Contents/Resources/Alert.app/Contents/Resources "
that is a nice looking bulletin board with two items pinned to it. You can see what the icon is by double click in EasyFind list, it will open in Preview.
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What folder is the standard Hard Drive icon kept in?

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