How to fit slim cd-rom drive into tower case?

I pulled out a cd-rom drive from my sister's laptop and i'm trying to fit it inside my case. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fit a "slim" cd-rom in your tower??

an example of what i'm talking about is here

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152069

Any insight at all will be great. Hope to hear from you guys.

I have never done this but are you sure it will even connect to the motherboard? Does it use standard IDE/molex power? I've taken lots of laptops apart and they don't use the same connector for data/power.

I also know nutting about doing that... however... more then likely it use the same type of coonection as a laptop hardrive which means you will need a 2.5-3.5 converter. (I know the optical drive is the same width as a normal optical drive .. .but hte point is.. .why would a laptop use 2 different IDE technologies on the same board? It must use the same type of connection as the Laptop Harddrives )

If you can pull her HDD and compare.. .yo ucan save yourself some money and just buy a new DVD burner for your PC. The adapters cost as much as a DVD burner.
(cheapest I have seen was 25 dollars for the converter... and my DVDburner (DRU-700A) I picked up on ebay for 24 bones

Using the smaller IDE is most likely wha t is the case...

JTOMA

yeah save yourself the time and frustraction and buy yourself a new one from the egg. they have gone wayy down in price and are very affordable now

yea this came out of a vaio. It's weird because I couldn't classify this machine as a laptop or a computer. It was like a hybrid of both. But a cd-rom drive that looked very similar to that one in the newegg link and came with a convertor It uses the tiny 4-pin connector to connect to the PSU and connects to the motherboard with the same IDE cable that is used for HDDs and normal cd-rom drives.