Hidden CD Drives How to?

[Nu2PC]

Have any of you done a case mod that hides your CD drive or come across a how to? Any info would be appreciated. I'm building my first pc and I've seen some cool case mods at virtual hideout that hide the drives behind the bezels.

 

[Nu2PC]

bump

 

[ToxicMussels]

Why would you wanna do that?

 

[Nu2PC]

Sleek lookin man! The Drawer pops out ya know. I'll include a link.
Third Case Down

 

[GroundOO]

that amazed me when I first saw it. People will be like, hey you don't got a CD drive? and you push a button and they go ooooh. yeh, anyways. I think it would be easy, just slide the drive back a little and glue the cover to the tray. I don't know how you could make a button (without a hole in the coverthing) but you could still eject in software. You could like the CD-ROM drive to your desktop and right click-Eject easily. Still a prob in games.

 

[Nu2PC]

Iagree it looks swweeet! It's also good if your drives happen to be three different shades of beige.

 

[cain8885]

^bump, I am really interested in this as well as my inwin q500 holds a black cdrom from my old comp. I was thinking perhaps if one were to remove the clips from the blank 5.25 pannel, it would be possible to attach a bump(best word? ) onto the back of the blank plate where it would come into contact with the eject button. Now if you attached the pannel to the cdrom, say not with glue, but perhaps using some sort of high strenght silicon adhesive. It would make sense that the flexibility of the silicon would make it possible to push on the blank panel over the eject button, and have the bump you added trigger the eject button. then just slide the whole assembly back a bit so the panel is flushed.
Think it would work? ive been contemplating doing this exact procedure but of course any how to would be nice.

later,
Cain

 

[GiZzO]

How i beleive how its done..is your remove the face plate and button, then remove the faceplate on the tray..then mount your prepainted brazel that matches your case on the front of the tray. Seems pretty simple. I wish i could hide my floppy drive that would be interesting, i never use the thing as it is.

 

[GroundOO]

silcone and a bump idea sounds really cool, just push on the bezel. Should work, just put the bump really close to the button so you don't have to push much.(less flex)

 

[Nu2PC]

I heard that when people do this they use software to open the drawer.

Gizzo why not fashion a spring loaded door like in the link for your floppy.