I got my new netbook over the weekend and started installing some of my critical software to it. However, one of my favorite pieces of software was only available on CD and I don’t have a CD drive in my netbook. I didn’t want to run out and buy a USB CD driver either. Since I couldn’t install the software from an online source, I decided to copy the installation CD to a spare USB drive and then install the software from there. It was really an easy process.
1) From my desktop PC I placed the installation CD in the CD drive (D:) and plugged in the USB drive (E:).
2) From Windows, I selected “Start” and then “Run”. I typed cmd to launch the DOS command line window.
3) From the C:\ prompt, I simply typed: xcopy D:\*.* E: /s/e/f
4) After a lengthy copying process, my USB Flash drive now had a full copy of my installation CD on it and I was able to easily install the software from the USB drive onto my netbook.
It worked like a charm!
