Ghetto solutions

[Master Yuki]

Hey guys! Windows 8.1 won't download on a USB stick on my Windows Vista, so I thought of a ghetto solution. I'm planning on buying an NZXT H440, that case doesn't have a 5 inch bay for optical drives. And I was just wondering if this would work:

 

Get my old optical drive. Put a power and data connector to it. Keep the window of the case open. And put the windows disk on the optical drive. And start downloading windows on my PC. Would that work?

[C0LL0SS0S]

yep would work, make sure that the dvd drive is stable since it will spin up 

[DarkBlade2117]

Yeah, they have USB cd readers also for like $20 which may work

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yes. The bays just give you a place to hold the drive, they don't perform any functions or anything. 

 

EDIT: Make sure the drive is not moving around though, it could mess the disk up. 

[dalomo]

~snip~

Yeah it would work. Why wouldn't it? You're plugging it in like normal just not screwing it in.

 

Also, follow your topics you jive turkey

[Shhuks]

Yeah, they have USB cd readers also for like $20 which may work

Best investment I've gotten in a while. Since I don't put disk drives in most of my builds this comes in handy.