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Build Your Own PC

Install Floppy Drive

May 31, 1999
By David Risley

For instructions for installing a floppy drive, see the corresponding page in the Floppy Drives section.

Some of the steps can be skipped for now. It will be necessary to locate Pin 1 for later, but the ribbon cable should not yet be connected, because there is no motherboard to attach it to.

Simply screw the drive in place.

Save the face plate for later, just in case the drive is ever removed and there is a need to replace it.

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Skip To Page 1 Introduction 2 Purchase/Collect Components 3 Remove System Case 4 Prepare Case • 5 Install Floppy Drive 6 Configure Hard Drive & CD-ROM 7 Install Hard Drive 8 Install CD-ROM 9 Configure the Motherboard 10 Install the CPU 11 Install Heat Sink 12 Install Cache Module 13 Install Memory 14 Install Motherboard 15 Install I/O Port Connectors 16 Connect the Motherboard to the Case 17 Connect Floppy to Motherboard 18 Connect Hard Drive 19 Connect CD-ROM 20 Install Video Card 21 Post-Assembly 22 Initial Boot-Up 23 Configure the BIOS 24 Test Your System 25 Install Additional Hardware 26 Prepare the Hard Drive 27 Install Drivers and OS

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