Loadinbg netbook from CD

[PeeDee]

I own the CD loaded with the Office 2003 Pro version, and have its code #. I
am about to purchase a netbook, which has no optical drive. Can anyone advise
me as to how I might load the Office software from its disk, without using or
purchasing a CD drive that links via a USB port.
Thanks

[R. McCarty]

Several options:
1.) Setup a network share if you own another PC, copy the CD contents
to the share, load Office from the shared drive.
2.) Buy a small ( 2-Gigabyte ) flash drive and copy the CD contents to
it.
If you'll need to do DVD based installs - get a 8 Gigabyte Flash
drive.

"PeeDee" > wrote in message
...
>I own the CD loaded with the Office 2003 Pro version, and have its code #.
>I
> am about to purchase a netbook, which has no optical drive. Can anyone
> advise
> me as to how I might load the Office software from its disk, without using
> or
> purchasing a CD drive that links via a USB port.
> Thanks

[Kevin]

Networking it and using the CD/DVD drive of another system on your home network.
Or copy the entire CD on to a flash Drive and then installing from the flash
drive by double clicking on the setup.exe file.

There is not other way to do. If you can't afford a new Cd/DVD drive tough luck!




PeeDee wrote:

> I own the CD loaded with the Office 2003 Pro version, and have its code #. I
> am about to purchase a netbook, which has no optical drive. Can anyone advise
> me as to how I might load the Office software from its disk, without using or
> purchasing a CD drive that links via a USB port.
> Thanks

[Gordon]

"PeeDee" > wrote in message
...
> I own the CD loaded with the Office 2003 Pro version, and have its code #.
> I
> am about to purchase a netbook, which has no optical drive. Can anyone
> advise
> me as to how I might load the Office software from its disk, without using
> or
> purchasing a CD drive that links via a USB port.
> Thanks

Something to think about - it;
It's almost certain that the Netbook will come with a Recovery CD - how are
you going to use that?
Buy an external CD/DVD drive - they are cheap.

[BillW50]

In ,
Gordon typed on Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:03:31 +0100:
> "PeeDee" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I own the CD loaded with the Office 2003 Pro version, and have its
>> code #. I am about to purchase a netbook, which has no optical drive.
>> Can anyone advise me as to how I might load the Office software from
>> its disk, without using or purchasing a CD drive that links via a USB
>> port.
>> Thanks
>
> Something to think about - it;
> It's almost certain that the Netbook will come with a Recovery CD -
> how are you going to use that?
> Buy an external CD/DVD drive - they are cheap.

Actually you *never* need a CD/DVD USB drive for a netbook. I know, I
have five of them. As the hardest part of being without one is
installing a fresh OS install when you have the install on CD/DVD. As we
had the same problem with older computers that never allowed booting
from CD *ever*! But it still can be done. Now having said all this, yes
I do have an external USB CD/DVD. As it is much less work. <grin>

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2

[PeeDee]

"BillW50" wrote:

> In ,
> Gordon typed on Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:03:31 +0100:
> > "PeeDee" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> I own the CD loaded with the Office 2003 Pro version, and have its
> >> code #. I am about to purchase a netbook, which has no optical drive.
> >> Can anyone advise me as to how I might load the Office software from
> >> its disk, without using or purchasing a CD drive that links via a USB
> >> port.
> >> Thanks
> >
> > Something to think about - it;
> > It's almost certain that the Netbook will come with a Recovery CD -
> > how are you going to use that?
> > Buy an external CD/DVD drive - they are cheap.
>
> Actually you *never* need a CD/DVD USB drive for a netbook. I know, I
> have five of them. As the hardest part of being without one is
> installing a fresh OS install when you have the install on CD/DVD. As we
> had the same problem with older computers that never allowed booting
> from CD *ever*! But it still can be done. Now having said all this, yes
> I do have an external USB CD/DVD. As it is much less work. <grin>
>
> --
> Bill
> Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
> Windows XP SP2
>
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded. After hearing responses, I used my desktop with an optical drive to look at the Office 2003 disk and the list of all of its files (341MB). It seems possible to copy these file to a USB stick, then insert the stick into the netbook, and then install the program from the stick to the netbook using the 'setup.exe' file. That should place the program on the netbook (unless someone can advise otherwise?).
Again, many thanks.