Is it possible to stealth a floppy drive?

SouljaAC

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I'm going to stealth 2 of my cd-rom/cd-rw drives. My case is silver and the drives including floppy is beige/white.

I wanted to know if anyone can post a link or tell me how to stealth a floppy drive.


Much thanks.
 

MichaelD

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I don't think it would be too hard to fabricate some kind of "flip down" drive cover. Being that you can't cover the slot with an immobile plate, ala a CD Drive, a flip down is really your only choice, AFAIK.
 

Mday

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it takes quite a bit of force to depress the floppy button for ejection since it's mechanical not pure electric, tranditional methods wont work, since the cd-rom button is a momentary switch.

you're still using a floppy drive?
 

cheapgoose

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Originally posted by: Mday
it takes quite a bit of force to depress the floppy button for ejection since it's mechanical not pure electric, tranditional methods wont work, since the cd-rom button is a momentary switch.

you're still using a floppy drive?

easy solution, get rid of it.
 

lchyi

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Instead of stealthing it, you should just replace the beige cover with your own custom cover. Take a dremel and cut out a slot in the 3.5 drive cover and a hole for the button (that maybe difficult considering it's really small). Then just place it over the floppy drive with some double stick tape... that should work.
 

DurocShark

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Some cases come with a slot with a chrome pushbutton to mount your existing floppy to... The Amamax case that was $17 for a while has this.
 

Bookie

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I did a really good stealth for my floppy drive. It's stealth so well that even sherlock holmes couldn't find it (unless he went to the garbage dump). Get a usb flash drive if you need something to replace your floppy, they're dirt cheap.