What do I need? External Disc Drive??

Hardeman

Hello Techies,

My daughter has a netbook - with no disc drive. She needs to load onto the netbook the word/excel,powerpoint etc- which I have on a disc. What do I need to buy to enable her to do this?

Thanks

Hardy

Rikki

Can you load it onto a pen drive from yours and then onto hers?

I'm hoping this is possible as I need to do the same from my laptop to my netbook.

Tyler_Du

Search google for open office, you should be able to download and install it that way

Hardeman

ok
thank you for your advise

davb

If you have the install CD for MS Office and a valid licence key, then you should be able to copy the entire contents of the CD onto a pen drive from your PC (best to create a folder for it), then put the pen drive into the Netbook. On the netbook, open the folder in windows explorer and double click on the setup.exe file. This should start the install as if it were running from CD.

Bowling_4_Gold

Davb's method is the easiest and cheapest method, so I also recommend doing that. If you really don't feel confident in doing that, you could pick up a cheap USB CD Drive from eBay, like this one, or have a search around for cheaper used ones.

isofa

If you have another computer, and both machines have an Ethernet port, then connect both to a router/hub, or directly with an £5 ethernet cross over cable, share the CD/DVD drive on one and access it on the other, or just share and copy the contents over and install from there.

(If they both have wireless and are both connected to a router/access point, you could do the same without wires.)

Hardeman

Thanks everyone.. I will buy a cheap disc drive - then we have one. Will it play dvd's and connect into a tv do you know...?

Hardy

DCFC79

Hardeman wrote: »

Thanks everyone.. I will buy a cheap disc drive - then we have one. Will it play dvd's and connect into a tv do you know...?

Hardy

if you buy the right 1 then yes it would play dvds but im not sure on the via a tv aspect,

Hardeman

davb wrote: »

If you have the install CD for MS Office and a valid licence key, then you should be able to copy the entire contents of the CD onto a pen drive from your PC (best to create a folder for it), then put the pen drive into the Netbook. On the netbook, open the folder in windows explorer and double click on the setup.exe file. This should start the install as if it were running from CD.

Hello!!

I have it on the pen drive - its in the netbook - I dont understand where the windows explorer thing is - can you simplfy for me..please...:o

Hardy

macman

Go to My Computer, find the flash drive (probably numbered E or F), double click to open that drive, navigate to the required folder.
Once the flash drive is recognised, it's just treated as any other drive on your laptop would be.