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Old 29th January 2011
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
If your new system still uses IDE and not SATA only, you can put both a hard disk and an CD/DVD drive on a single IDE cable. You have to make sure one is master and another slave.

You don't have fit the optical drive in the housing, just place it outside the housing on a book or something. I have done that many times for just installing
I think that might have been the obvious solution I was looking for last night. I was just too tired to think of it myself, so I figured I'd group-source it while trying to catch some zzz's

Now I'll just have to dig up a two-device IDE cable and stitch this together.

Thanks!
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