Crazy A600 HD Problem

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I agree - the drive is spinning up too slowly.  Common issue.  It may have other issues, as well.  Is there some reason why you want to save this particular drive?  Otherwise I'd just go with this:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=883

For the princely sum of $25 USD, all of your old hard drive woes can be a thing of the past.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

In the past now... onto icon editing now and trying to fix the size of old style icons from images that I have loaded in. Tricky but doable.

Just IMHO again, it sounds like you're putting an awful lot of work into a hard drive that's already starting to fail.  You're going to lose all those icons when that drive finally craps out.  Hope you make a backup!