Making an internal optical drive an external portable one

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Don't want to buy an expensive external optical drive so am trying to think of how to make a SATA or IDE internal optical drive into an external one for emergencies.

Anyone know if I can get adaptors for the power and data connections?

Have Googled but no luck.

Oops found some build ideas on Youtube - should have looked there first I suppose:o
 
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I use a Vantec enclosure that was pretty cheap, and it turned a $20 Samsung SATA burner into an external one, for troubleshooting or working on computers that don't have optical drives.
 

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DeaconFrost said:
I use a Vantec enclosure that was pretty cheap, and it turned a $20 Samsung SATA burner into an external one, for troubleshooting or working on computers that don't have optical drives.
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Thanks Deacon I'll try there as the Altech ones were fairly expensive and I specifically want one (or two) that use IDE drives as I have a pile of them here.

Just thought I would make one up for this friend who has just bought an eMachine M355 for it's size.:cool:
 

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