To install optical or floppy disk drives you will need first to remove the meshed cover that is in front of the bay that you want to use. As we already explained, to remove these covers you need to remove the plastic front panel.

Floppy disk drives must be installed inside the 5 ¼”-to-3 ½” adaptor that comes pre-installed in the third bay. You need to first remove this adaptor from the bay, which is done by unlocking and removing the screwless fastening mechanism. This adaptor can also be used to install a hard disk drive, if you need one extra hard disk drive bay.

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Figure 19: 5 ¼”-to-3 ½” adaptor.

This case comes with two different types of screwless installation mechanisms. The top three bays come with plastic rails already installed in the bays, so all you need to do when installing optical drives (or the floppy disk drive adaptor) on these bays is to unlock and remove the installation mechanism, slide the drive in, and then put the mechanism back in place and turn its knob.

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Figure 20: The two types of screwless installation mechanisms for optical drives.

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Figure 21: Sliding an optical drive in a 5 ¼” bay. Notice how you don’t need to add any plastic rail to the drive.

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Figure 22: Fastening the optical drive to the case.

But if you want to install an optical drive on any other 5 ¼” bay, you will need to install two screwless rails to the drive (see Figure 23). You will need to remove one of the hard disk drive cages if you want to use other 5 ¼” bays.

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Figure 23: Optical drive with plastic rail installed. This is only necessary if you don’t want to install it in the top three bays.