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2. How To Download From Disc To Computer

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A computer with no CD drive still needs to have software installed on it. Itcan often be done through your USB drive.

by Leo A. Notenboom, © 2013

My new laptop does not have a CD drive. I have some programs on CDs such as Office 97 and Access 97, which I want to run or update from on my new machine. Can I (so to speak) squeeze them through a USB? How?

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In this excerpt from Answercast #90 I look at the possibility of transferring contents of a CDto a USB drive in order to install a program.

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Computer with no CD drive

Well, the good news is that many programs that come on CD will actuallyinstall just fine if you simply copy the contents of the CD, theentire contents of the CD, to a USB drive.

I typically recommend that you do so to an empty USB drive so thatit looks as much as possible like the CD - except that it happens to be a USBflash drive.

Run program from USB drive

How To Download A Cd

Then, after you've done that (presumably on some other machine thathas both a CD-ROM drive and the USB drive) you can then take that USB drive toyour new machine and plug it in.

After it appears in Windows Explorer you can then navigate to the root ofthat drive and run what would, presumably, be a set up program or somethinglike it.

Now, I will warn you that some programs, not very many these days, but someget kind of, I don't know, 'picky.' I did run into one recently with my hamradio that insisted that it could only be installed from a CD, from a CD image.Well, that's a pain in the butt.

There are ways around it - but for the most part, most programs that aredelivered on CD can usually be installed by simply copying the contents of theentire CD to a USB drive and then installing from the USB drive instead.

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The other option is to simply get an external USB drive. A quick search shows you can get a USB CD/DVD drive for around $20.

Another option is to attach a cd drive from another system through the network (if you have another system on your home network)

Will My official Windows 7 installation disks copy to USB and still load? If any installation disks are going to be picky, I would suspect Microsoft disks to be.

These are the only programs I still load from a disk.
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@John H
When any OS is simply copied to a USB stick, that USB stick will not be bootable. So you would not be able to install from it. There are some third party utilities which can copy the DVD and produce a bootable USB stick. I can't recommend any, as I don't have any experience doing that with anything but Linux, But you can use Google to help find one.

@Mark J.
Thank You for the good informstion. I try to minimize the time I spend maintaining my system. My time being more valuable than a technically 'efficient' computer system. Thankfully my external USB hard drive is small enough. The most efficient solution would be a proper disk image.

How To Download From Disc To Computer

I have an external 3.5' floppy drive for loading CNC software into a DOS environment ...

Yet another option would be to create a CD image (on a computer that has a CD drive of course), transfer that to the target machine, and on that target machine use a CD emulator program like e.g. daemontools to trick the OS in thinking there really is a CD drive in the machine.

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