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From CD to Thumb drive?

by mopscare42 Apr 20, 2009 12:43PM PDT

My Grand Daughter has a Acer Aspire one computer that does not have a CD drive, only USB ports.
She has a CD with a bunch of games on it that she would like to load on the Acer.
I can't find how you transfer from CD to thumb drive.
The way I would like to do it is just like a drag and drop without loading the CD on my computer.
Is that possible?
I am using Windows Vista Home Premium.
Thanks
Wayne

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Sometimes, yes...
by John.Wilkinson Apr 20, 2009 1:38PM PDT

However, some CDs use varying methods to determine if the software is being run/installed from the actual CD and will refuse to proceed if otherwise. Thus, your approach will usually work, but there may be some cases where an external CD-ROM drive is necessary, barring some rather convoluted workarounds.

John

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Thanks John
by mopscare42 Apr 20, 2009 1:58PM PDT

I have tried the drag and drop in my computer and that doesn't seem to work.
Have also looked in Nero and nothing there.
I will play around with it some more tomorrow to see if I can figure it out.
If not, external CD drives are pretty inexpensive so will see about getting her one. I am sure this will come up again.
Thanks again.
Wayne

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There is an alternative...
by John.Wilkinson Apr 20, 2009 11:00PM PDT

Rip the CD to an ISO file on another computer using a free application such as CDBurnerXP (or Nero, if you have it on that system), save the ISO to a flash drive, transfer the flash drive to the Aspire One, then mount the image using the free application CloneDrive from SlySoft. That will enable you to create a virtual CD-ROM drive and install the software normally, provided advanced protection techniques are not used.

Hope this helps,
John

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Again thanks, John
by mopscare42 Apr 21, 2009 12:33AM PDT

That worked.
I used Nero for the process.
That was something I would have never figured out by myself.

Wayne

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