Add Fixed Drives
To minimise potential problems, we initially installed only those drives necessary to get Windows 98 up and running: the floppy drive, the hard drive, and the DVD-ROM drive. We placed our new 3.5-inch floppy drive into the floppy bay, connected the floppy interface cable to the motherboard's floppy connector and the drive, and attached the drive's power connector.
You can probably use your old PC's floppy drive to save a few bucks.
Our hard drive was a 40GB DiamondMax Plus from Maxtor. We made sure the jumpers were set to "master," then positioned the drive in the case's internal bay. After plugging the ATA/66 interface cable into the drive and the motherboard's primary IDE channel, we connected the power lead.
Our final acquisition from TC was a Creative Labs PC-DVD 8X DVD-ROM drive. We set the drive's jumper to the "master" position (a setting we would need to change later, in step eight), mounted sliding guide rails (which came with the Enlight case) onto either side of the drive, and slipped the drive into the case's topmost drive bay. The drive didn't come with an interface cable, but fortunately, the motherboard did. We attached one end of the interface cable to the motherboard's secondary IDE channel and the other to the drive, then plugged in the drive's power supply. (With the robust CPU and graphics card we chose, we didn't need a dedicated hardware DVD decoder.) We then screwed all of the drives into place.
You can probably migrate over your existing IDE CD-ROM drive to save a few dollars, then replace it with a DVD-ROM drive in the future.
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