What I did was take a blanking plate, chop it into 4 peices and bent each of them in half. The first one I drilled a hole on each and mounted them to the front of the case - now the drive firmly slotted in right underneath it stopping up and down jolts. The next two I drilled two holes in (shown in the centre picture) which I attatched with screws to the drive, then once slid in place screwed into the case. This made for a VERY firm attatchment, pushing it would not budge at all :D

At this point I still didn't have my motherboard (I had my review sample home in England) so I hunted around for someone that sells them. Beleive me, these boards can be VERY tough to find, no shops I went to (and I went to a lot) sold them, and 98% of them hadn't heard of them! But I eventually bought one from www.outpost.com, which is the online outlet for Fry's Electronics. While this was being delivered I decided to modify the case slightly by adding USB to the front, I did this from a 5 1/4" bay USB kit.

I removed the board and ports from the kit and started modding the casing. I snipped off one of the columns (as you can see on the right) and then took off another two. Then using a fine file I took off enough plastic so that the USB ports snuggly fitted in the new hole. I then held this in place with some epoxy putty (it was what was at hand!).

As you can see, a clean mod! Well, not clean - as you can see how dirty it is and in need of a good spray paint ;)

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