aaron11193
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Hey all,
I have had about four spare 40GB HDDs and an old HP 8220e CD Writer laying around for ages and since i needed something to store my music and movies on for boarding school I decided to put the CD Writer and a HDD to use.
I spent the whole day melting (with a soldering iron :-S) the inside plastics of the oversized CD Writer to accommodate a HDD,converting a normal IDE cable to be [Female]<--->[Male] instead of the standard [Male]<--->[Male] and making it about 1 inch long and extending the power socket in the CD Writer case.
I put it all back together (with about 5 screws less
) and plugged it into power....
*cool whurring sounds
*
I've plugged the USB into my mac but it doesn't like it.. but then again my mac never liked it when it was a CD Writer.. so I don't see why it would work any better now..
I guess I'll have to find a PC to plug it into..
What do you guys think??
I don't expect too many replies but I posted this on here because I know this forum is full of smarties
And CBF looking for a PC forum... boring stuff there..
I have had about four spare 40GB HDDs and an old HP 8220e CD Writer laying around for ages and since i needed something to store my music and movies on for boarding school I decided to put the CD Writer and a HDD to use.
I spent the whole day melting (with a soldering iron :-S) the inside plastics of the oversized CD Writer to accommodate a HDD,converting a normal IDE cable to be [Female]<--->[Male] instead of the standard [Male]<--->[Male] and making it about 1 inch long and extending the power socket in the CD Writer case.
I put it all back together (with about 5 screws less
*cool whurring sounds
I've plugged the USB into my mac but it doesn't like it.. but then again my mac never liked it when it was a CD Writer.. so I don't see why it would work any better now..
I guess I'll have to find a PC to plug it into..
What do you guys think??
I don't expect too many replies but I posted this on here because I know this forum is full of smarties
And CBF looking for a PC forum... boring stuff there..