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Opening a USB Enclosure

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Knocks

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Hey all. I bought a USB 2.0 external CD-RW drive by Pacific Digital and I am trying to rip it apart to check the manufacturer and to try to put an IDE hard drive in it. It's the 32x12x48x model. There is one screw in the bottom (voids warranty) and one in the back. I took both out, but had no luck pulling apart the plastic parts of the casing. Are they glued together? Has anyone messed with this enclosure? I tried so hard a couple of plastic parts actually broke off 🙁
 
i've taken apart a Maxtor Firewire hard drive enclosure. It was a simple matter of removing the label and a couple of screws. I can't speak for your enclosure, however.

-=bmacd=-
 
Actually, I have the same question, does anybody have any experience opening a USB cdrw enclosure?

I have an IOMAGIC 32x USB2.0 external and have been trying to swap it with some other 5.25" devices. Mine too has four screws and one screw hiding behind the "warrantee void if damaged" tag. But the drive seems to be glued. Anyone else?
 
I think it's easier to take it apart if you pull out the side rubber parts first, then the front. They weren't glued together, so it's just a matter of pulling the damn things apart in the right order.
 
Is that how you opened you Pacific Digital drive? Does it work with other 5.25" device?

my IOMAGIC doesn't seem to have any rubber on the side and I am having a hard time opening it still since I didn't want to break anything. Anyone who has experience opening an IOMAGIC enclosure?
 
I read about it in the hot deals forum, on the pacific digital enclosure. There are some kind of plastic keepers that you push in with a screwdriver. might want to search that forum. belarc identifies my pacific digital usb as ltr something and my burning program NTI identifies it as a lite-on
Waitman
 
That worked for me, but I think pepsimanz has a different type of enclosure. Lite-on is nice, my Pacific Digital shows as a "CyberDrv." I've never even heard of that manufacturer before :|
 
Cyberdrive

I have a Cyber Home DVD player made by Cyberdrive.....it's pretty poor....can't speak for their CD Drives though. Although I have heard of them somewhere before....can't remember where though!

Corm
 
Haven't tried burning a CD with it yet, but when I pop in a regular CD it makes louder noise than my roommate's blender. Could be bus mastering or DMA settings. I'm not gonna mess with it, since I'm only going to use it for burning CDs. The noise is actually good cause you'll know when it's done burning 🙂
 
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