Too apart an external CD-RW drive

[aye29]

Took apart an external CD-RW drive

I took apart an 3 yeah old 32X CD-RW drive and removed the drive itself so I'm left with only the empty shell. Would I be able to buy a new internal DVD+RW drive and put it into the enclosure of the old CD-Rw drive and use it as an external device? The IDE connector and power connectors inside the drive enclosure are intact

 

[Nubius]

I guess you could, but you'd still have to plug in the IDE Connector and molex connector to the new drive, or completely re-wire it to fit into the wiring from the 'shell' you have, but other than that, most CD-Roms and like don't have any components that'll fry if shocked sticking out so technically you could just make your internal cd-rom and external anyway if you wanted, but you still gotta get all those wires out there somehow