netbook & cd drive

teenee60

Hi, i have bought a netbook and i want to install my new office 2007,(& another from disk)
it doesnt have a cd drive,so is it possible to connect it via usb maybe to my laptop and use that to install?
i dont want to have to buy a separate usb cd drive for 1 or 2 installs.
cheers

KillerWatt

You can quite happily copy the entire contents of the Office CD/DVD to a USB memory stick and install from that, just as you can put the Office CD/DVD in another machine that does have an optical drive and share it out over a network.

The only time that would not be realistic is if you install a program (normally a game) that requires the disc to be present when the application is running.

totalsolutions

Adding a DVD drive to your netbook by sharing the one in your desktop PC.
This tells you how to to share a DVD (CD ROM) and then "Map a Drive"

On your main PC in My Computer select the DVD/CD you want to share. Right click and select Share.
Tick the Share box and close. On the menu bar there should be a "Map a Drive". Click and browse to the new shared drive. Click ok. On the Samsung laptop open "Network". (Start/Computer/Network) There will be your main pc, in there is the DVD/CD you shared. Pop in a disc and view on the laptop, install/play/watch a DVD playing on the main pc and viewing on the laptop.

This is really easy to do and hope this reads ok.

Any firewalls you have will need to be set to allow connections if blocking access.

teenee60

thanks for the really usefull answers.
will give that a bash tomorow on my day off work.

prost

Totalsolutions - how do they connect a laptop to a netbook?

Killerwatt - can someone copy a commercial CD-ROM to a USB stick?

If your netbook has a hard drive then you could take it out & put it in a laptop/desktop PC. But, there's 2 types of hard drive, ATA & the newer SATA & each uses different connectors.

(If you had a desktop PC, & your netbook/laptop has an ATA drive you could buy a 2.5 to 3.5 inch converter: http://www.amazool.com/en/25-inch-to-35-inch-laptop-ide-adapter.html
to use it in the desktop PC. Ebay probably sell that connector.

If your desktop PC can use SATA then it uses the same connector as a 2.5 inch SATA netbook/laptop hard drive.)

You can also get an adapter to connect a 2.5 inch laptop/netbook hard drive to a USB port.

£12 for ATA:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-2-5-USB-2-0-Portable-External-Hard-Disk-Drive-Case-/350352768229?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_HardDrives_RL&hash=item5192a6fce5

£8 for SATA:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/C921-USB-2-0-External-HDD-Case-SATA-2-5-Hard-Drive-/260502960595?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_HardDrives_RL&hash=item3ca72fb9d3

Donnie

You can also download the setup files file the official Microsoft shop and use your licence.