William;
 I stumbled onto this site with specialty screws
http://www.pcplan-it.com/h_kits.html
the compaq hard drive screws are about half way down the page.
I think they are what you are looking for.
Another place to look would be a local computer shop
that saves all their junk like I do :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hornkohl" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] big headed hard drive screws


> I have a recent Compaq and a HP desktop that I'd like to add additional
> hard drives to. I opened them up and I see the hard drives have some kind
> of
> big headed screws that attach to the side of the drives in the regular way
> but they slide into channels and lock in place with a plastic bracket. If
> I
> had some of those "big headed screws" it would be a snap but I can't seem
> to
> find anywhere where I can buy any. Anybody know what they might be called
> or
> where I could send for some?      Thanks.

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