Installing a Floppy Drive

"Hi. I'm Allen and welcome to Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to build your very own personal computer. Now when you get your case you'll have all these fronts on it some of them work differently so read your case information all that. And for the most part they should come off relatively easy. If you just do some pressure they'll pop off. Be a little careful because these are plastic and they do tend to be a little fragile. And of course inside, this one since I've used this case already you don't see it, but you'll see usually like these metal brackets that will bend off which I discussed before. And the best way to get these off is either maybe start it with like a little screwdriver and then grab it with a needle nose plier. Don't do it with your hands because you'll cut yourself. Same idea for where the floppy goes. You'll have like a little piece that you can just pop off, so just do that. You have everything in place and then whichever drive bays you're not using here, you can put one back in place for it. And it'll just slide into place and click and your good to go. So right now I got my floppy drive which I said is up to you if you want to use it. Go ahead I'm going to put it right in the slot from the front. Might be a little bit of pressure putting it in. Put it right there. Now just as I was putting that in I just had a real quick thought that on my new computer instead of using the floppy drive because I don't need it, you can also get the memory card readers that are the same size as a three and a half size. So maybe look into that. You can spend like fifteen dollars and it'll read like twenty different types of memory for your digital cameras and MP3 players. So that's what I did on mine. But this one we're going to put in the floppy drive. So let's go ahead. That's in, in the space right now. Go ahead I'm going to grab one of these screws here. Just go ahead put these in, usually they come with the floppy drive or with the case itself and only one size fits. Now my thing is if your building this for home, home use it's up to you if you want to use all four screws in here. Usually if you just do a screw on one side and a screw on the other side towards the back so you have one in the front and one in the back, nice and tight. It's not going anywhere your not really throwing the system around, but if your going to be traveling or going to shows and stuff with the system put all four in. That's totally up to you I almost always do two, because you know most of us like every other person building something usually you end up with either more screws or less screws. So you might as well just have two in here, then you have more screws just in case you need to do anything else if you didn't order them. Don't have to see that, just go ahead put it in. That's in the spot. O.k. And now the floppy drive is in place and this only has one power supply connection for it and it's only looks like that you'll see how it works, can only go in one way. It's going to go nice and snug there. So let's just go ahead put that in. Clicks right into place there. And then of course we have this, again can only go one way because you have the clip. So you've just got to look a little bit and good light is definitely a plus because you'll see which way everything goes. So go ahead press that into place. Floppy drive is connected. You're good to go with that."