Modding my FDD! Need some advice from you guys please!

mishima

mishima

mishima

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Hi there,

Ok, I've had my new case now for about 3 weeks and I still haven't painted the ugly beige FDD on the front of it. Basically I need some tips, advice for painting my FDD black please!

Any help, tips, advice would be much appreciated, thanks!

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Ive never done this myself before, but what I would think you would need to do is remove the front bezel from the floppy drive, then remove the springy flap on the bezel and then get a spray can and spray then each separatly, oh and also you should be able to remove the button from the drive aswell and give that a spray :)
 
Anybody still running windows xp :/ as i have found out lately.

Trying to reinstal xp onto a laptop that needed drivers for the sata drive. It will only accept them on floppy :/ (laptop has no fdd) what can you do?
Wont take them from cd/usb drive.
v annoying :confused:
 
touch said:
Anybody still running windows xp :/ as i have found out lately.

Trying to reinstal xp onto a laptop that needed drivers for the sata drive. It will only accept them on floppy :/ (laptop has no fdd) what can you do?
Wont take them from cd/usb drive.
v annoying :confused:
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XP SP2 install disc then :confused: I've installed XP onto three SATA based PC's with no need for SATA driver disc to be inserted.
 
squiffy said:
XP SP2 install disc then :confused: I've installed XP onto three SATA based PC's with no need for SATA driver disc to be inserted.
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Tried booting off raid?

That needs drivers on a floppy. Then again, i have a USB floppy drive, so i don't have a FDD on any of my computers bar my monowall. :)
 
ah maybe it was raid drivers i needed then. I cant remember, i just remember i needed a floppy drive :@
 
It will cost less to get a new black drive than the price of the paints + your time.

Or, make that 3.5" bay useful and put a card reader + floppy drive combo in.
 
mishima said:
Hi there,

Ok, I've had my new case now for about 3 weeks and I still haven't painted the ugly beige FDD on the front of it. Basically I need some tips, advice for painting my FDD black please!

Any help, tips, advice would be much appreciated, thanks!

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I would invest in a straight desk, that one appears to have a side missing . . . . You must be using No More Nails to keep everything on it . . .
 
Hardly ever, anyway I have decided after considering most of your comments to get a black FDD. As Caged mentioned, for the paint and the hassle of having to dismount the front of the drive, and faff around for a fiver I could have just got a new one. So I have gone and done just that!

PhillyDee: :confused: lol
 
When I put my beige FDD in my Zen case I just didn't mount it so it was flush with the front, this enabled me to keep the blanking plate in place but is still easily accessible (remove the plate) when I need it.
 
messiah khan said:
Just mount it backwards in a hardrive bay so its out of sight. I mean how often do you use it anyway?
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This is a great way of keeping one in the case but out of sight and stopping the case from being ugly...but I never used mine and the cables were restricting airflow, so I just removed it completely.

If you still must have one, backwards mounting it out of sight is deffinatly the way to go.

InvG
 
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